White field, black sheep : a Lithuanian-American life
"Her parents never really explained what a D.P. was. Years later Daiva Markelis learned that ٢displaced person٣ was the designation bestowed upon European refugees like her mom and dad who fled communist Lithuania after the war. Growing up in the Chicago suburb of Cicero, though, Markelis had only heard the name T.P., since her folks pronounced the D as a T: ٢In first grade we had learned about the Plains Indians, who had lived in tent-like dwell...
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