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Published daily in Bend, Oregon, by Western Communications, Inc. Copyright 2007.
May 8, 2006
My father and mother immigrated to the United States in 1912. They applied for a visa, waited to be selected under a quota system from their native country, traveled across the Atlantic Ocean in a crowded ship and were legally processed as new immigrants at Ellis Island in New York.
They learned....