A young woman from Stamford, CT, wrote me this beautiful letter, and
I want to read some of it to you. She encapsulates in modern language
what Crevecoeur, Washington, and de Tocqueville were saying centuries
ago. She said:
I am the proud descendant of Syrian immigrants. My great-
grandparent's sacrifices to resettle in Rhode Island have
shaped my entire life. I've grown up very close to my
grandfather, the first generation of his family born in
America, and I know what my ancestors did to be here and
how far we've come from them being persecuted and
subjected to religious violence in Damascus.
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