Hand on her heart, reciting the Pledge of Allegiance for the first time as a U.S. citizen, Iryna Ivankiv thought of her parents, hiding in a basement in Ukraine; of her nephew, a 20-year-old college student leaving his books to go to battle for his country; of bombs falling in her home city of Kopychyntsi.
“I am upset, and worried,” Ivankiv said. “All the time, I call them, I ask about situation.”
