I had planned to go into a long narrative as to why every American should be made to read this book; but there are not enough words to describe what it meant to me. Maybe after reading it, people would cease identifying 9/11 and Katrina as the greatest disasters that the world has ever had to endure.
As you read these words, you feel the heat, the cold, and the stench these immigrants had to endure. You experience what is was like to work at the speed they had to, just to make a few pennies. Consider if you could have endured for a full day what these people did for years; always being taken advantage of with no one to complain to.
After reading what these immigrants survived, we should be so grateful for what they did for us; and so thankful that we haven't even come close to such bad times. As terrible as 9/11 and Katrina, and whatever is waiting for us due to the economic meltdown, reading this book puts things in perspective.
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i had a discussion about katrina with some folks from england and they were livid about the slow response of the federal government... i thought about it and asked the question, "there was over 90,000 square miles of devastation, thats larger than the whole of your island.. what would have been the response of your government if there was that much devastation there... not only new orleans was affected..." sometimes to have things put in perspective can be a humbling experience...
The silver lining in this new depression may be that it's the furnace that restores a bit of toughness, smarts, and adroitness to a new generation of Americans...sort of like the last Great Depression took a generation of roaring-twenties partiers and turned them into wise just-get-it-done Americans like my Grandparents.
Joe your grandparents and my parents were a diffrent breed. They used their heads for something besides resting ear phones.
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