The article offers the author's insights regarding the life story of Jake Zahradnik. According to the author, Zahradnik has been a prodigal son who went back to his native land Czechoslovakia after his parents decided to leave the country as his father was being pressured to join the communist party.. The author cites that Zahradnik decided to go back to his country as he wanted to know how to live in a communist state and tried to reconnect with his roots.