*July 4, 1894...My grandmother's birthday*

[CaliforniaPeggy]

Today I honor her memory...
Her parents saw, and lived, the American Dream...
They came from Sweden, met and married here...
She was their oldest child...
She was a bright, hard-working, motivated lady...
She and her husband raised their six children on a farm outside Chicago...
They had a pump in the kitchen...
She would kill and clean chickens for their meals...
She baked bread every week...
And still had time to go into Chicago for concerts...
She lived through the World Wars, and the Depression...
She did not let adversity shrink her soul...
My Grandmother! How much I still miss her, and her example!
I wonder what she would say if she could see what's happened to her beloved country...
Her birthday, today...
I salute her!

[Easterncedar]

1. What a beautiful tribute. Thanks for sharing!

[CaliforniaPeggy]

3. And I thank you, my dear Easterncedar, for your lovely response!

I'd pretty much given up that anyone would respond. And here you are, expressing your support for my grandmother and for my tribute to her memory.

[MustLoveBeagles]

2. Thank you for posting

[CaliforniaPeggy]

5. And I thank you as well, my dear MustLoveBeagles, for your lovely response!

She was very special to me, so long ago.

[bdamomma]

4. She sounds

like she had a wonderful hardworking journey. That was the premise to come to the US to live and work and just have a life. California Peggy you were blessed to have her.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

6. Thanks very much for your beautiful words, my dear bdamomma!

She truly had that journey and she always enjoyed her life.

You are so right! I was blessed to have her.

[bdamomma]

7. There were

many just like your grandmother who came here to start a new life, which now these sick White Nationalists like Stephen Miller wants to remove from our society, totally sick. I just read how they want to bulldoze the Statue of Liberty, that is just sick. This cannot be done.