Joy and sorrow he remembered of his first hours on Ellis Island and of the wonder he felt in seeing the towering Statue of Liberty after weeks at sea aboard a crowded cargo ship. Herded off the ships by the thousands. men. women and children were channeled Into Ellis Islands cavernous. echofilled processing chambers. There. hopeful Immigrants huddled together by family. nationality or. in his case. shuffled alone among the masses passing to America. The questions. he recalled. came fast and furiously from bluejacketed strangers who spoke In a tongue he knew nothing of. Their crude and impersonal manner left mothers crying for their frightened children and fathers scrambling to keep their families together.
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