For years I have kept my real name hidden behind my DU user name.

[melm00se]

But today, I choose to reveal it to this community with an answer/commentary on another site.

https://www.quora.com/Why-do-American-voters-expect-President-elect-Trump-to-keep-his-word-on-deportations/answer/Matt-Bossman

[Dear_Prudence]

1. Thank you, Matt. nt

[MaryMagdaline]

2. Awesome response!

[Deuxcents]

3. Your words and the video are what I thought we were..what I've known for 77 years.

I’m beyond distressed at what I see unfolding in front of my eyes and wondering if we will survive this nightmare. How have so many forgotten the sacrifices that were made by our grandparents and their parents to make it possible to be here? So very glad to meet you, Matt, as you’re my Florida neighbor. 💙

[bluestarone]

17. 77 here as well!!

Just want to say i agree 100% to all said here today! I just gotta wonder after seeing this video, What would Americans do today if tRUMP took away the statue Of Liberty? SCARY times we live in today. I never thought i could hate as much as i do these days.

[summer_in_TX]

4. Heartfelt and poignant, Matt.

Thank you for that and for sharing it with us.

[calimary]

5. That was a good read.

MOST thought-provoking. Thanks, Matt!

And thank you for reintroducing yourself.

It’s just a shame that so many Americans would gladly spit on the beautiful and compassionate words on that plaque, these days.

And here I thought that ALL of us in this country have bloodlines from elsewhere. All of us except the tribes who were here first - unless you remember that THEIR ancestors likely migrated from the greater Asia area via the continental far north.

Pretty much everybody here is from somewhere else, in earlier eras.

[mr715]

6. Matt is a great name

[Xavier Breath]

8. Yes, but we agree that whole "Bossman" name is totally made up, right?

I kid, Matt, I kid

Nice post.

[mr715]

10. Solid

He and I share very similar names. Bossman is cooler than mine.

[melm00se]

14. People will ask

when my wife and I are out and about "Are you the Bossman?".

Being married for as long as I have been, I keep my mouth shut and let her reply to that one.

As another anecdote about my name, I attended a Jesuit Catholic high school and Fr. God's (picture what you think God looks like, put him in traditional Jesuit attire and you'll get the picture) 1st words to me as a scared freshman was "Mr. Bossman, you name smacks of hubris, we'll have to look out for that".

[Xavier Breath]

15. You could have said "No, that's a typo, I'm Mr. Bassman" and broke into the '60s novelty song.

[melm00se]

16. A 14 year old Catholic boy

in an unfamiliar environment?

[Xavier Breath]

18. You do know I wasn't seriously suggesting you should have done that, right?

It was just a play on Bassman vs. Bossman.

[orleans]

7. thank you. and that video --

[kerry-is-my-prez]

9. Excellent! I also live in SW Florida - in Naples! Glad to see another blue person in this sea of red.

[Deuxcents]

19. I live just north of you and have been wanting, for years now, to visit The Holocaust Museum in Naples

I wish every child in the public schools in Collier and Lee counties would make it a must see on their school trip days. Actually, everyone should go as people seemed to have forgotten that horror and why so many immigrants came here during those years. I wonder if they even teach that in schools today..

[BonnieJW]

11. Hi, Matt

I am the descendant of grandparents who escaped the pogroms in Czarist Russia at the turn of the last century. I and my family are alive today because they were brave enough to come to a new country. Now I wonder if I am brave enough to leave this country. I am very afraid for my kids and grandkids and I think it's time for us to leave.
Who would ever think this country would fall to nazis?

[lucca18]

12. Thank you Matt!

I am glad you posted.
People should stop and think that we all in this together...

[Prof. Toru Tanaka]

13. Your post was very good and I agree.

Forgive me but my first reaction at the”restricted area/keep out” sign was a laugh because it caught me off guard. But after realizing that it would be welcomed by many Americans, it was a sobering and poignant reminder of how much things have changed in this country since the end of the Obama administration.