This Province Is Our Land
When nosotros operate alongside people who are living alongside dementia, nosotros oftentimes are privileged to hear stories from their past, stories of how they came to America or how their parents or grandparents immigrated to this land.
We operate alongside people of many as well as varied ethnic groups, religions as well as cultures as well as as a consequence their stories of immigration vary greatly.
There are, however, a few themes that are mutual to all of the elders telling us these stories.
They all, every 1 of them, made a life hither as well as contributed enormously to their novel domicile - America.
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Here are a few of the stories that people alongside dementia lead maintain thence generously shared alongside us:
1. Ezra was a 102 yr onetime homo when nosotros showtime met him. He was unsure where he was (a long term attention center) what the yr or fifty-fifty the decade was as well as he never remembered us.
But Ezra remembered real good his High German grandfather, a homo who cleared the Indiana forests alongside simply a real sudden ax as well as an indomitable will. He would inspect his sons as well as grandsons each Lord's Day morn to brand certain they had come upwards up to scratch before they were allowed to walk the few miles to church.
Ezra as well as his household unit of measurement continued to farm the reason that his gramps cleared, producing meat, milk as well as grain for his swain Americans.
2. We were working alongside flags of the globe 1 twenty-four hr menses with Jenny who commonly said well-nigh zero as well as slept through much of the day.
When Jenny saw the flag of Norway, she picked it upwards as well as studied it as well as and then began to tell us (in her thickly accented English) of her trip to America when she was 14 years onetime as well as all alone. She described inwards groovy especial watching the send push clit away from the Norwegian shore as well as seeing the poppies dancing inwards the wind.
That was the concluding she e'er saw of her homeland or her family. Upon her arrival inwards American, Jenny had to attend showtime degree inwards guild to acquire English. She told us how embarrassed she was to sit down inwards the piffling desks alongside a room total of half dozen yr olds. So, she studied real difficult as well as learned English linguistic communication real quickly!
Jenny married a bakery from Kingdom of Denmark as well as they established their ain neighborhood bakery. She told us it was her chore to become from their storey to the bakery downstairs real early on inwards the morn to lite the ovens as well as acquire them hot for her bakery husband.
The other elderly ladies inwards the grouping hearing this story began to express joy as well as 1 of them said to Jenny, “I’ll bet yous kept it hot for him!”
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3. There was Nick who told us how he as well as his brothers swam rivers as well as climbed mountains to escape Republic of Hungary as well as the armies of the Austria-Hungary who rampaged through villages to forcefulness immature men to acquire by the emperor’s wars alongside them.
Nick was simply 17 years onetime when his send landed on Ellis Island. He as well as his older brothers divide upwards when they arrived.
His ii brothers went to Detroit to endeavour as well as notice operate inwards the burgeoning auto factories but Nick liked the expect of Chicago as well as got off the educate there.
He learned English, raised a household unit of measurement of 4 children as well as became a designing maker at Air Motor of Chicago, the people who made the windmills that are found on farms all over this country. His son, Nick Jr. was a decorated airplane pilot inwards WWII as well as saved many American soldiers.
4. Esther’s household unit of measurement were immigrants who came to this reason alongside nothing as well as built a sod solid on the prairie. At 95, she silent remembered with groovy affection the piffling solid inwards the groovy body of body of water of grass on the Nebraska plains.
She told us that the sod solid stayed cool inwards the summertime as well as warm inwards the winter. She fifty-fifty had an onetime photograph of a tiny Christmas tree standing inwards the corner of their sod house. Esther was a poet as well as a instrumentalist as well as a adult woman of deep faith as well as a real proud American!
All of the people we’ve met inwards this dementia operate lead maintain made contributions, groovy as well as pocket-size to the United States.
They tell the stories of their travels hither or their families’ journeys to America alongside groovy pride as well as alongside groovy thankfulness.
We, their swain Americans, should lead maintain a instant as well as accolade these courageous as well as adventuresome souls who left everything they knew behind to come upwards to this foreign reason where they did non sympathise the language, where they had to operate real difficult as well as where they were oftentimes non wanted.
But it was as well as is their struggle, as well as their gifts that lead maintain made America, the USA, the groovy reason that it is today.
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