Rita Wilson

He escaped a labor camp.

He got on a freighter ship to get a job so he could come to America.

He jumped ship when he got to America.

He got a job as a bar back in New York and worked his way up to being a bartender.

And he supported a family.

He bought a house.

He never had debt in his life.

He and my mom were married for 59 years, and they were an incredible couple and incredible parents.

And I knew that in my heart, but my own insecurities that time, I really failed to honor my father in the way that he should have been honored.

At that time.

Fine, I was 23 years old, but still old enough to know better and to really value what he had accomplished and what he had sacrificed in order to have a life of freedom in America and to escape from communism.

And he was such an incredible person.

So that, she...

Taught me an enormous lesson.

And I was able to have my dad for so many years.

So, yeah.

How moving.

Thank you so much for sharing that.

And I think there's a lesson there for so many of us who take...

our families for granted because that's all we've ever known.