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It does mean something to me that PA clinched this.

 

My father's family is from Pittsburgh. My grandparents were second generation Russian Jews; their families had come over from the Tsar's pogroms. They lived through the 1918 pandemic and the Great Depression. My grandpa ran the mail service on Okinawa in WWII, then came home and spent his life working for the post office. They lived in a small and simple house in a modest neighborhood their whole lives, and because of their upbringing they never did anything with their savings besides put my father and my aunt through college. They lived maybe 10-15 minutes from Squirrel Hill and the Tree of Life synagogue.

 

I was glad my grandparents hadn't lived to see Nazi filth marching in Virginia, and I was absolutely sick about the shooting in Squirrel Hill. So for me, anyway, this one is for them.

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