Re: [Cz-L] Re: czernowitz-l digest: June 06, 2011

Bravo to our Canadians .
 Their posts are inspiring.

Hardy
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From: "andy halmay" <andy_venivici_at_yahoo.com>
To: "Czernowitz Genealogy and History" <czernowitz-l_at_list.cornell.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, June 07, 2011 2:19 PM
Subject: [Cz-L] Re: czernowitz-l digest: June 06, 2011

My late father-in-law, whose ancestors as far back as he could determine had
all been born in Toronto, had moved to Chicago in the late 1940s. When he
visited us once in the 1960s he broke out in tears when he saw how the town
had changed, what they had done to HIS town. (It had doubled or tripled in
size, etc.)

Leaving our roots tugs at our heartstrings in ways similar to the pain
experienced when our children grow up and go off on their own. When I
suffered the pains of empty nesters, a friend quoted to me a line by an
Asian philosopher who said about children, "They are like arrows. All we
can do is aim them and let go."

Our town was Czernowitz even after it became Cernauti and both are long
gone, except in our memories, which we frequently share. Chernivtsi is NOT
our town and the sudden appearance of that memorial brings that home. For
some of us, visiting the buildings that once belonged to us brings certain
rewards. Some of us would prefer to simply visit the memories.

Who among us would want to live there today? If you live there, work there,
pay taxes there, you get a voice in their affairs. If you don't, then you
are a tourist and tourists have limited rights in the running of towns they
visit.

It's sad but true. For me, the only happy outcome from all this came
through Cornell. I thought I had been studying Urdu and now I realize I can
read Swahili.

Czernowitz is dead. Long live Czernowitz.

Andy
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