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43 years ago our next guest
left the soviet union for a life of
freedom and opportunity
here in the united states and now she's
calling on
immigrants to reject the new american
hatred
arguing that declaring love for your
country should not make
people uncomfortable yet it does joining
us right now to mark this special day
today is new york post columnist carol
markowitz
and carol it was on this day july
20th that you came to the united states
and you regard this
as your america bursary right
yeah i wake up on july 20th feeling like
it's my birthday
um it's a really big day in my house my
mom and i we're gonna you know tonight
we're all gonna go out and celebrate
uh we treat it like the day we were born
we came to the u.s
our lives really started and i was born
in the soviet union
in russia and it was your life was sort
of
going to go a certain way and then we
got extremely lucky
and ended up in america and it's been
just a miracle we acknowledged that and
we know how
amazing it is to be here and so we don't
have any problems saying america is the
greatest country that's ever been
and right and there's no issue with that
and and you clearly
you love america and you are a patriot
and in your piece
i've got a quote right here it's not the
one we're going to use in the
teleprompter
you right it's a tough moment to be a
patriot radicals are rewriting our
history framing america not as a shining
beacon of freedom
but as a pit of wickedness so when you
look at what is going on in the united
states right now
how do you feel about the people who are
squandering what a great country we have
i just think they don't know i think
that they really
don't understand what's out there i
think they're very insular and they
don't get that there's a big world out
there
and america for all of the things that
we might have done wrong in our history
we're nowhere
near you know the other countries and
the crimes that they committed
it's just you have to look at history in
more than just a myopic
very america-centric way and look
america again is not is imperfect
we're going through a lot of things
right now but i i believe in us i think
that we have a really strong foundation
that we're really you know a beacon to
people all around the world who want to
be free there's a reason they wave those
american flags we are that hope for
those people
sure and i know last week when you saw
the people in
havana waving the flags it it you know
it was deja vu all over again for you
and at the conclusion of your piece you
talk about how do i pass along
my effortless love of this country to my
children
how do you do that it's tough so again
my russian community i don't know if
people are aware of this but ex-soviet
people who live in uh
in the united states are the most
patriotic i mean shout out to my
community we are america loving people
and it's really tough to say you know to
pass that along to our kids who have had
every benefit of living here without any
of the struggle
they don't know what their grandparents
went through i mentioned in the piece my
mother never saw her father again
um that was just a sacrifice that she
had to make to get her kids to freedom
and to get her kids a better life
my kids don't understand that they grew
up in brooklyn they live a life of
freedom already
it's hard but we work on it we talk
about it all the time about how lucky
they are and how blessed they are to be
here
well uh you feel blessed to be here and
you regard today as your
america bursary it's like a birthday but
then again you also have a birthday in
april april 18th so you get two
birthdays you're so lucky
that's right but this is the main one it
is indeed uh her op-ed is terrific uh
read it at new york post.com carol thank
you very much
thank you all right i want i'm brian
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