That is a classic story - even better than the one my cousin told about how he brought my grandparents and father over to the US. I'm sure that it would have worked out differently had he not been reading from a phrasebook or the mayor hadn't had a sense of humor, but you gotta admit it's hysterical :)

For those who care about my cousin's story, the short form is that he was a US Army Sargent stationed in Germany, and his father told him to go visit my grandfather his next leave and get the family to the US. So he showed up at the US embassy in Brussels in his full dress uniform (including the various medals he got from hitting the beaches at Normandy (and losing a leg in the process)) and was escorted right in to the ambassador (past the line of people waiting outside) who asked "what can I do for you?"

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[...] in order to be a realist you must believe in miracles.
-- David Ben Gurion
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