The Legacy of Dutch immigrants, Jan and Willemina van Roekel ... A love story ... A true story about overcoming the odds ... A story of dreamers leaping out to make their dreams come true ... A story of the hardships of millions of immigrants who came to America to seize the opportunities ... A story of hard work, achievement, and making a valuable contribution to what is America, a land of opportunity ... A story of reaching beyond, in faith, to levels their families would say, even now looking back ... it is a remarkable story ... What of them have we taken with us? We honor them when we...

Most families have "skeletons" in the closet. For my wife's family, there was a Monster, a type of dementia that robs loving, intelligent individuals of everything-their dignity, their personality, their memory, their finances, and their minds. The "skeletons" are the remains of loved ones after the Monster has finished with them. The family members who are not devoured by this beast are, even so, crippled and maimed by its effects on their loved ones. Little did I know when Evelyn and I married in 1970 that this "Jabberwock" would come a'calling on us. My wife at age 60 is now vastly gone,...

Most families have "skeletons" in the closet. For my wife's family, there was a Monster, a type of dementia that robs loving, intelligent individuals of everything-their dignity, their personality, their memory, their finances, and their minds. The "skeletons" are the remains of loved ones after the Monster has finished with them. The family members who are not devoured by this beast are, even so, crippled and maimed by its effects on their loved ones. Little did I know when Evelyn and I married in 1970 that this "Jabberwock" would come a'calling on us. My wife at age 60 is now vastly gone,...