“Only those who have not had freedom truly cherish it”
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By Judi McLeod —— Bio and Archives December 23, 2016
In praise of author and popular CFP columnist Dr. Ileana Johnson Paugh on Wednesday’s column ‘Half a Loaf of Bread, commenter Hans PFall points out most eloquently “only those who have not had freedom truly cherish it.”
As a child growing up in Communist Romania, Ileana longed for the freedom of the United States of America, dreaming from afar that she would one day grow up and make it to that ‘shining city on a hill’, which she eventually did.
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Just as we are about to celebrate 2017, PFall takes us back to the film ‘Casablanca’, which was set in Nazi-occupied Morocco:
“There is a scene set in a cafe where the patrons, in defiance of the Nazis, start singing La Marseillaise. There is a shot of actress Madeleine Lebeau with tears in her eyes as she sings. That is not acting. She had just come over after escaping occupied France.
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