Severing

Mt. Tabor had a "centennial" celebration replete with fun events such as a kids' parade, Ben & Jerry's ice cream, a rock-climbing wall, and more. I noticed some kids in the kids' parade wearing signs on shirts saying they were 5th generation Mt. Tabor residents. I thought it is good that one can trace such family history and anchor one's existence to a specific period and place. And yet there are those bereft of such history--of such anchoring. Many Americans forcibly abducted and kidnapped to be slaves in the United States have had their connections to a place severed. Family connections that had gone back countless generations in one's land were uncoupled. That which had been one's entire life, land, existence, was no more.