Peter Hamill's comment on immigrants to begin of episode 4

I thought it was very touching words, and possibly painful also for the children of immigrants to hear.

"I remember one time after the war, I was about twelve my father had a job at the factory across the way. And because he lost his leg had to stump on a wooden artificial leg. And in the summer and there's nothing quite as ferocious as a New York August, he would work on this assembly line 8 hours a day. At the home, that night I heard him weeping in the dark around one o' clock in the morning. And I knew that no matter what I ever did, couldn't articulated exactly, that I have to honor that pain. You must honor that. I think that's the children of immigrants do, all of us. We know what they did. They gave up their country. Some cases they gave up their languages. They work in the lousiest rottenest job in order to put food on our table. We have to honor that the rest of our lives."

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This is your wake-up call, pal. Go to work.