How did we get here? My great grandfather, on my father’s side, came from northern Sweden. For many generations that side of my family were very poor farmers. They were also very devout Lutherans. His name was Evert Warren Lindberg, he was the 6th Evert Lindberg, I am the 9th. When my great grandfather was 14, his parents let his sister die. They did so because their view on life and death revolved around “God’s will.” Combined with economic opportunity this was enough to make him spend all of his money on a ticket to America. With no money, ability to speak English, or family, he traveled to America. After a short stint in the army he moved to Chicago where we found a job and found his future wife, Elcina Qaadman. Elcina lived with he Jewish family in Holland. However, with the Nazi scare becoming more and more real, she and her siblings boarding a ship to America. They left two months before German occupation of the Netherlands. The rest of her family, along with 9