Here in the United States. they know what freedom is. and they want it more than ever for the friends and relatives left behind. All but the youngest remember the brief six weeks of independence wrested from the Russians in 1941liberty that was smashed by Nazi Germany. and further suppressed by Russia after World War II. Lithuanian Americans this week are honoring the brave but futile attempt by a Lithuanian seaman. Simas Kurdirka. to seek asylum aboard a U.S. Coast Guard vessel in As Brezhnev and Nixon meet. Americans of all ethnic origins would do well to reflect upon their own freedom at this time. and to hope with their Lithuanian.
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