The only thing they knew was the life and the family they were leaving behind. America was their destination because it is a land of opportunity, where hard work matters and where ordinary people can build extraordinary lives. He survived, but the wound stayed with him for the rest of his life. It wrote about a life that had mattered—a man whose character had strengthened his town. President John F. Kennedy once said this: “Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer.