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  • ON THE INAUGURATION

    Wednesday January 21, 2009
    On the wall of my office in Washington, closest to my desk, I display the original immigration certificates of two of my grandparents: Myron Kusnitsky and Rae Volovitz. Their photos peer down on me, and in their eyes I see two things. I see eyes filled with a history of dread and persecution; of grinding poverty and violent pogroms; of discrimination and despair and hopelessness. That was life in Russia. I also see eyes wide open to the opportunity of the land to which they came: America. Yesterday, sitting a few rows behind Barack Obama as he became President of the United States, I thought about those photos.
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