Autobiography - The Galindo Group

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Ram Galindo THE MAKING OF AN AMERICAN Page 208 becoming a part of America. My story is by no means unique, but it serves to help my readers identify with their own family histories and re-ignite the duty we all have to continue our predecessors’ work in improving and preserving our social compact. Autobiography.doc 208 of 239
Ram Galindo THE MAKING OF AN AMERICAN Page 209 CHAPTER 5 SERVICE ---051--- GIVE TO RECEIVE Generosity appears to be one of the unspoken propositions on which our social system is founded. America has indeed set standards for the world when it comes to helping other people in need. Whether a hurricane, earthquake, flood, disastrous fire, volcano eruption or tsunami wave, wherever in the world it occurs, American help gets there. I have seen the anxiety, hope and relief with which foodstuff, first aid and other supplies produce for the recipients. After the socialist government of Bolivia brutally redistributed agricultural land then in use in the country, food production dropped to levels inadequate to sustain the population. By mid-1953 hunger was rampant and the block commissars rationed all basic staples. Working through the Catholic relief organization known as Caritas, American taxpayers sent packaged goods to feed the Bolivian population. I had two elderly spinster aunts, Aunts Stella and Isolina, my Dad’s sisters, who had dedicated their lives to help the less privileged. They worked in all sorts of charities and although the commissars didn’t particularly like them, they needed my two church-going aunts to show American relief workers that they had some people with a reputation of probity involved in the food distribution network. Through my aunts I had my first taste of a morsel of cheddar cheese, that delicious yellow concoction that I could never forget after that day! I saw them distributing packaged foodstuffs and weighing portions of flour, lard, dry milk and sugar to hand out in the long lines that were formed day and night until the products were gone. I remember them complaining how a good part of the large bags that were unloaded never made it to the distribution stores, going instead to the private residences of the political bosses. What amazed me even then was the fact that all this help came from the people whose embassy and flag were desecrated over and over again through the underhanded direction of the same leaders whose government the U.S. was saving. American generosity went beyond self-interest. The same example repeats itself, even today, everywhere in the world where we see need. American generosity is undeniable and unprecedented in history. Autobiography.doc 209 of 239
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