Joe Spector
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Fighting for freedom.
Exactly.
I think it's a concept they didn't want you to know about.
Yeah.
And we fled.
We fled with, I had a hundred bucks and a red suitcase.
And we left-
Lived in Italy in a refugee camp for several months.
Eventually got political asylum to come to the United States.
And then, you know, lived in low income housing for a long time.
In the Bay Area?
In the Bay Area.
What was that like?
A couple of things.
First, my dad definitely told us that we have to assimilate, that we have to learn the language.
He himself, he was a civil engineer and I saw him at first working flea markets, just doing manual labor.
And I think it showed me that he would do anything for his family to have a meal on the table.
And I think later in life, it showed me no one's too good to take out the garbage.
That's right.
That is exactly right.