In May of 2010 David Hecker traveled to the homeland and village that his Great-Grandfather Martin Hecker had immigrated from to the United States in 1891. Munchen, a once prosperous farm community, was located ninety miles north of Odessa, Russia and had been colonized by Germans in 1809. Now this village in present day Ukraine is a battered remnant of its former self after the pillaging of the Bolshevik Revolution and Stalin's collectivization program. This journey to Munchen ended a twenty-four year search into family roots that had started in 1987. Along the way Hecker found out that he...