COMING TO AMERICA!

     SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 16TH., 2018
              COMING TO AMERICA!

        Immigration is a big issue these days.
It's in the news nearly every day.  I thought
you might like to know about the first ones
that decided they were coming to America.
         September 16th is "Mayflower Day."
This is the day, in 1620, that 102 colonists,
men, women and children, set sail on the
Mayflower from Plymouth, England bound
for Virginia.
          They landed more than three months
later near what is modern day Cape Cod,
Massachusetts. That has me thinking they
may have had a GPS system guiding them!
          As you probably know there were
already people here when they arrived. We
used to call them Indians but that has subsequently
been changed to Native Americans.
           The Native Americans did not have an
Immigration Department so, even though many
of them were unhappy to see foreigners moving
on to what had been their property they
welcomed them and even, at least for a time,
provided them with welfare by way of
sharing their food and survival knowledge.
            If they knew then what we know now
I wonder if they might have considered
building a wall to keep those immigrants
(we now call them Pilgrims) out?
             Of course they didn't and the
newcomers, and those who followed, did
pretty well here in "the new world."
              So today we remember those
brave voyagers who left their homes and
extended families to seek religious and
political freedom and whose determination
prompted Neil Diamond to write and sing
the song "Coming To America."
               Hoped you like Neil Diamond
as much as I do and that all your NEWS is
good!