Many of America's and New York's sons and daughters are around the world fighting for the freedoms that the Statue of Liberty stands for.

Many of America's and New York's sons and daughters are around the world fighting for the freedoms that the Statue of Liberty stands for,

Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me:
I lift my lamp beside the golden door.

I grew up in New Jersey and never went up the Statue of Liberty.

I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast.

As I looked up at the Statue of Liberty, I thought at that time, 'What a wonderful country.'