I did not face the rigors of combat. although when you are in the service. you respond to what the service tells you to do. I also think of the service of my father. Harry Specter. an immigrant. It always makes me mindful of immigrants who have built this country. My mother. too. was an immigrant. She came at the age of 6 with her family from the Ukraine. I have had some comments about their contributions to this country in another context as we have talked about immigration reform. which is now pending before the conference committee of the House and Senate. My father came to this country at the age of 18. in 1911. The czar wanted to send him to Russia. and he wanted to go to Kansas. As I say sometimes in jest. it was a close call. but he got to go to Kansas. But he didnt know that when he sailed steerage from Europe to the United States. he had a roundtrip ticket to Francenot to Paris and the dancing girls. but to the Argonne Forest. It took exactly 30 days for the U.S. Army to induct Harry Specter in Fairbrook.
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