Speaker, I am sure that there are Garcias or Asgaris or
Rodriguezes that share that same story, but the one I tell is not
theirs. This family's name is Kennedy. Struggling immigrants whose quest for
a better life took them from Ireland's potato famine to Boston's
immigrant barrios. It is the ageless story of a young man looking for a
better future, of a family in search of a safe place to settle down, of
the sacrifice that any parent would make for the benefit of their
children. And it has been repeated millions of times in every corner of
our world in the over 150 years since my ancestors fled their home to
find a new one.
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