Thanks America - You Set Me Free
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Where am I today?
Today, I am a happy and calm person. My fear and anxiety are gone. Every morning, I awake looking forward what the day will bring. My children both became great, responsible people. I adore them, and they adore me. I am proud of them, and we love each other very much.
Heinz and I live a very harmonious life. We both came with a lot of baggage but worked our way through it and made it. We enjoy being together twenty-four hours. We do not take each other for granted, but respect each other. Our love for each other grew and deepened. I can say he is my best friend. He let me become myself.
Through all the years, I learned so much and grew to be what I am today. As this book shows, I had to go a long way. I am looking forward to the future and cannot wait to see what is in stock for me. I embrace my life, which God gave me. I see all the gifts God bestowed on me and try to live by it, to come closer to him. But all this I would have not been able to do in
THANKS, AMERIKA! YOU SET ME FREE.
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About the Book
This book is about the American freedom and spirit. What each person in this country can be or become, no matter what back ground there is. Each one can become his or herself. Nobody gets intimidated by a higher ranking person or authority.
This book shows how the author came into this country unknown and fell in love with the USA. It is written very personal. U.R. explains the challenges she encountered in moving from Germany to a whole new world. From being very prejudice she fell in love with the lifestyle. From culinary to cultural differences this book compares the adjustments the author and her family made in order to assimilate into the American society. Through the freedom and encouragement she found in her new land, she found herself, be herself and discovered a real relationship with God. In Germany it is still a society of different levels while in America everybody can become what they are and what they want. Nobody looks down or up, nobody judges another person. This book will give the reader an understanding, why the author became a full fledged American like so many other immigrants.
About the Author
Ulla Reichhardt was born in Germany and experienced WW2 as a child. She grew up in a very strict middle class society. She worked in Germany as a secretary for the CEO of a steel company where she met her husband. Their two children were born in Germany. When they were two and four years old, the whole family moved to America into the New York area. Ulla wanted to get to know the country and its people so she became a member of clubs, was den mother, brownie leader, busy wherever she was needed. When the children were eleven and thirteen Ulla worked as a tour director and tour guide. She brought German-speaking people all over the USA and Canada. This way she was in contact with German people in America. In 1994, she became an American citizen. In 2000, she wrote a book for German people in German: “Zwischen den Welten – eine Deutsche entdeckt America” (Between the Worlds – a German discovers America). She wrote about the people and the country.
Today Ulla lives with her husband Heinz in a suburb of Houston.