Answer:
I will tell him this
Step-by-step explanation:
My dad was young a boy during WWII in Greece. There was a famine at that time and the Greeks suffered tremendously, including mass starvation.
When I travelled to Greece with my dad about ten years ago, we visited a war museum. We walked through an area with pictures of the famine and I stopped at one picture in particular that showed two very emaciated children. My dad walked up beside me and said of the picture, “These are the images that I remember from the war.” I didn’t know what to say in response. It is unimaginable for me to understand what that would be like to go through.
Later that day my dad told me about a time during the war when he traded his few precious marbles with his older brother for a pea. A single pea, to eat. But before he had a chance to eat the pea, another older boy saw this and told my dad to give him the pea. My dad refused and the older boy threw a rock at my dad’s head, taking the pea when my dad fell to the ground. My dad had a little scar on his eyebrow from this rock where it cut open his eye. He also mentioned having to eat dog meat sometimes when they had nothing else.
Many years later when my dad was living in Toronto, he went to Albuquerque, New Mexico for a year-long sabbatical. He bought many, many canned goods and filled an entire cupboard of them even though he planned on always cooking or eating at the hospital where he worked. He never opened any of them, but had this intense need to always have a stash of food in the kitchen because the thought of someday being without food still stuck with him.
His experience with the mass starvation during the war also likely explains an incident at the dinner table when I was young. I was playing with the bread on my plate, pushing my finger through it to make a hole like a doughnut and he got very angry with me. He thought I was wasting the bread and I recall his reaction being out of proportion to the situation. But to him after the famine, wasting food would look like the biggest sin.