As I look through some of my web page I see that so much of the lives of me and my family have been impinged by movement across the country or into foreign countries. At one time I kept track of how many different states I had presented in (over half) and Canada and Costa Rico.
I have to smile to myself when I think of my dad being born in Indian territory in Oklahoma where his dad had taken the family before he was born. There was a time in our history when we could travel fairly easily around the country and the world. For instance, when
Dave Burns and I decided to go around the world we showed up willing to work on a Norwegian tanker and the Captain wanted to see our passports. Neither one of us had one. they weren't required when we were in the US Navy. When we didn't have one he said "You at least have a Birth certificate to get back into the states. We quickly called home and got them sent to us. I still have mine and it is only a little worst for wear.
It's hard to imagine going around the world now days that way.
We can't even go to Canada or Mexico and now it seems like the administration wants to put up a fence between the US and Mexico. You can imagine what I think of that.
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