A word or two about my intervention for AZLD4

[DFW]

36. I appreciate that, but keep it in proportion.

I just contacted someone I knew, and hoped. At the end of the day, it pretty much all comes down to that. I think any one of us who COULD have, WOULD have. I didn't stick my neck out, and I'm not the one going nuts because an uncaring, plodding system can't see its way to letting my wife join me. I sympathize because my wife has been treated unfairly on several occasions when entering the USA. She visits regularly (we have a daughter now living in New York), but she doesn't want to live there. She is well worth the trouble I went to in order to live here, but some persistence was needed there, too. I had to fight off uncaring, incompetent bureaucrats, too, and waving a photo of me next to Bill Clinton in a German newspaper in front of them didn't hurt, either, even if it was 16 years old. Few people seeking to get a German residence and work permit can produce that, I promise you, and bureaucrats are always intimidated by higher authority, even if it's only perceived. It's a sad fact, but the people ignoring AZLD4's efforts WILL sit up, take notice, and do something when it is a U.S. Senator on the line asking how far along they are in that matter he asked about.

Back in the seventies and eighties, I got unfairly harassed in East Berlin, too, where I was sometimes detained and stuck in a windowless interrogation room where I was the only one without an East German uniform, a gun, or the right to stand up without permission. It's just something they did to random people crossing into, or out of, East Germany. Their own people got a bullet in the back if they didn't have the proper documentation. We were just a distraction to pass the time.

When AZLD4 posts a photo of him and his wife together in Tucson, THEN we can start the celebratory fireworks, and believe me, I'll be celebrating along with everyone else. THEN I'll feel like I helped accomplish something!