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IMMiGRATION

Details: Published: Friday, June 29, 2018 14:42; by John Campbell; Hits: 2711

My wife and I sent our spittle to one of the DNA sites and received the results we had expected. My family had come to this country in about 1750 from Scotland to Connecticut and started farming. They were still farming when my father was born. He was raised on a dairy farm in central New York. He and his siblings left farming for other occupations. My wife had a different story as her mother immigrated from Italy as a child. Her father was born in the US but taken back to Italy when a baby. His father died in a coal mining accident in the US, so he was raised by his mother and stepfather in Italy until he was 18. He came back to the US to live in Morgantown, WV, where he married and had 3 daughters. So as you can see, my family is a mixed immigration family with a first generation American married to a husband whose family has been here over 250 years.

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EDUCATION OR NOT

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Published: Friday, June 01, 2018 13:48

by John Campbell

Many years ago, I entered the first grade at the school across the street from my house. Kindergarten was not available yet, and the school was part of a centralized system in rural New York. I was in a room with the first, second and third grades with a total of about 20 kids. It was a time during World War II, and the teacher’s husband was in the army. Mrs. Ellis taught all three grades, and we were able to hear all the lessons given to the other grades. By the third grade, we had already been through the material two times.

INCLUSION--LGBT

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Published: Tuesday, May 08, 2018 15:05

by John Campbell

My church has been working on an “Inclusion” statement for the past few years. The statement is written above the entrance to the sanctuary now, but the pastor wishes to have a vote on “Inclusion” that goes further than the statement. I’m not sure of what he is talking about, but in a few meetings he and his wife have made us aware of his belief in same-sex marriage. The church now opposes it. The rest of the “Inclusion” part puzzles me because I never saw anyone excluded from our church or any other church that I attended.

UNION-TO BE OR NOT TO BE

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Published: Monday, April 30, 2018 18:48

by John Campbell

It was 1956, and, after a year of college, I was unable to afford the next year so I got a job at GE making TV sets. The pay was equal to the combined pay of my mother and father, but after some coercion from fellow workers, I joined the IUE or International Union of Electrical workers. After a year or two of layoffs, I decided to get back into school and left GE. It was not many years later that the TV Department was shut down and moved to a state without many unions. I worked at a couple of jobs after graduating but never met another union organization until I moved to West Virginia. I took a job as plant manager in a pharmaceutical company, and the workforce was unionized. It was the first time I had encountered this arrangement.

THE MARCH OR ANTIGUN

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Published: Wednesday, March 28, 2018 11:48

by John Campbell

The kids marched, and I was proud of them. The school shooting in Florida stimulated teens across the country to cry out for help in being safe when they were in school. Hopefully, Congress and state legislatures would listen and do something to keep this from happening ever again. 17 schoolchildren shot and killed with many others wounded by one of their own and no way to stop this from recurring time and time again to this point. The march was a cry for help in finding answers to this problem. BUT!

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