What is ironic? Perhaps in Tancredo's case the melting pot worked and assimilation actually occurred and he identifies more with the Mayflower and the United States than with diversity and the universal/proposition nation bit.
What is ironic? Perhaps in Tancredo's case the melting pot worked and assimilation actually occurred and he identifies more with the Mayflower and the United States than with diversity and the universal/proposition nation bit.
And, perhaps, it worked in our case too.
We came to the U.S. from Cuba in August of 1960 and, by November of 1965, my uncle had already earned a Purple Heart and a Bronze Star with Combat V at Landing Zone X-Ray at the Battle of Ia Drang and is now listed on seven different pages of the index of "We Were Soldiers Once ... And Young".
Forty six years later, between my uncle, my brother, my sister and myself, we have 44 years of combined military service to the U.S. including my uncle's retirement after only 12 years because of multiple war wounds.
By contrast, Tom Tancredo, according to his biography went straight from college to being a high school teacher to being a politician and never served a single day in the U.S. Armed Forces in all of his entire life.
After three generations here, Tom Tancredo "talks the talk" but my Cuban-born, first American generation family "walked the walk" in service to the United States of America.
As far as I am concerned, Tom Tancredo can take his slur regarding Miami's Cuban-born community and cram it where the sun don't shine.