Attachment to Ohio

Not long after the turn of the Twentieth Century, my great grandmother, who came into the United States as a Jewish child who was fleeing Imperial Russia with her parents and siblings, settled in Akron, where her father established a business as a barrel maker. She did not consider Russia as her home ever as the threat of death from pogroms was all that blighted country offered. She considered the United States her refuge, and Americans as her people. She said we "should kiss the ground" for the freedom this nation affords us. Even though I am a Tennessean by birth and have spent most of my life here, I have special feelings for the Buckeye State that welcomed and embraced the stranger with a liberty and prosperity they could have enjoyed nowhere else. G-d bless America and the heartland of the US- OHIO!