Category Archives: Freedom Stories

My father was raised in Oradea, Romania, on the border area of Transylvania that runs between Hungary and Romania. His parents were religious Jews, and my grandfather, my dad’s father, owned a small business. The Nazis came late in the war, rounded up the Hungarian Jews (though Oradea today is in Romania, it was considered [...]

‘Let ‘em have one finger, they take your whole hand’ – Ionel “Greg” Grigore and his mother Dumitra. The Grigores, 54 and 74 respectively, came to this country during the 1980s in search of freedom and prosperity after spending their entire lives in Romania under the oppressive “thumb” of communism. Courtesy of BobMcCartyWrites.com

Three First-Generation Americans Offer Advice – From Cuba, Brazil and India, three first-generation Americans, including Marty Martinez from the video above, took time to share powerful messages every freedom-loving American should hear. Courtesy of BobMcCartyWrites.com

My father was Huston J. Joyner…an unusual first name, his father was Huston Enic Joyner. We have traced dad’s family way back, they came here from England in 1680. His mother was Native American of two tribes, Shawnee and Wyndot…two tribes who historically warred with each other. When the US government herded Native Americans into [...]

This is my story about coming to this wonderful country called the United States of America. I came to the USA in 1970 with my parents and brothers. I lived in a poor South American country. My father was a heavy duty mechanic working for the Ministry of Works and Hydraulics. He met an American [...]