OK, this from the top: Zatlers savā apsveikumā tautiešiem ārzemēs atgādina, ka “latvietis ir latvietis vienmēr, lai kur arī dzīvotu, lai arī par ko strādātu, lai arī kādas domas domātu savā ikdienas dzīvē”.

Great. So, where is my passport, please? At 68, I can’t give up the US citizenship under which I’ve earned a pension and made a family. But to end my life excluded from citizenship in the country where my identity was formed, where my history points, where my thoughts return in taking the measure of a life—this is a needless rebuke.

Come on Zaitler!

Andrejs Ozolins
Ithaca, NY
ASV