American newspaper writes about hard travel of Albanian family

The Ferati family is located in Erie, Pennsylvania, a city that once had a very powerful industry but now no longer has its former splendor. Many immigrants are now being deployed in an effort to turn this country's economy.

This is where the American medium has been interviewing Ferki Ferati. He is Albanian from Kosovo. Youth has been part of refugee camps, now it is a member of the civil society in Erie as president of the Jefferson Educational Association.

He has a Russian wife named Katya, and together they have a son named Adrian.

His father, Selman, died this month at 68. Here the newspaper tells of the values Ferki's father had preserved for the rest of his life as well as the American dream he had fulfilled.

Selman Ferati was the father of six children. He was loud against the Milosevic regime, a regime that believed that other citizens except Serbs living in Yugoslavia were second-class people.

He also stood against genocide against Albanians and Bosniaks.

His family was a priority, he first took them to Macedonia and from there to the US in 1999.

All his life he gave his children courage.

“Dream more, learn more and do a lot more”, he had always told his children.

He had sought to be buried in Kosovo. But he, writes the paper, remains a symbol of the American state's ideal.