BigT1
Sergeant Major
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Just imagine the obstacles to success Rafia has overcome.
When my father was 13 he arrived in NY from Sicily as a first class passenger on a cruise liner with his mother and siblings, October 1929, just after the crash.
His father and 2 older brothers had arrived in the early 1920's as slaves, found work, and saved to send for the family years later.
The authorities shaved his head for lice and put him in kindergarten; even though he spoke 4 languages, but not English.
Later, my father would be recruited by and made an officer in the US Army. He returned to Europe in command of 3000 men for the invasion of Italy from Africa under Patton, where his 5 languages and engineering skills just happened to help win WW-II.
Rafia, is our antennea into the future. I urge all here to respect her, and honour her effort to raise herself.
Even she has no real idea of the future she shall usher in, if she does not lose her honour and belief in fairness.
It is up to us to make certain she does not.
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AI
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When my father was 13 he arrived in NY from Sicily as a first class passenger on a cruise liner with his mother and siblings, October 1929, just after the crash.
His father and 2 older brothers had arrived in the early 1920's as slaves, found work, and saved to send for the family years later.
The authorities shaved his head for lice and put him in kindergarten; even though he spoke 4 languages, but not English.
Later, my father would be recruited by and made an officer in the US Army. He returned to Europe in command of 3000 men for the invasion of Italy from Africa under Patton, where his 5 languages and engineering skills just happened to help win WW-II.
Rafia, is our antennea into the future. I urge all here to respect her, and honour her effort to raise herself.
Even she has no real idea of the future she shall usher in, if she does not lose her honour and belief in fairness.
It is up to us to make certain she does not.
.
AI
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