One of the most wonderful Christmas stories appeared in the Wall Street Journal a few years ago.   “A Christmas Tale – 1919″  by Hans von Spakovsky is the son’s story of a father’s escape from tyranny and certain death in a Russian forest on Christmas night.  Thousands of stories like it no doubt exist, for tyrants throughout time have forced heroic escapes by those who love liberty. 

It is a story of Christmas in a snow covered forest, in flight from the vile madness that was becoming the Soviet Union.   It is a story of a cold night remembered each Christmas.  It is the story of hope and faith, when circumstances would seem to allow neither.

America is blessed with immigrants who have experienced what it means to live in lands where law, human dignity and individual freedom don’t exist. They come to America where each person is recognized as endowed with individual dignity.  

Even that is a Christmas story of sorts.