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Description
Mr. Campbell explains the reluctance he felt when eating ration packs knowing that the children of Baladwayne had nothing.
Transcription
When I arrived first I was very cognizant of the fact that these children had nothing to eat, so I wouldn’t have a bite of food out in my vehicle. I would hide down in the heat of the vehicle and eat my ration pack so that they couldn’t see that I was eating and whatever you had, they would accept gladly. We gave a couple of ration packs to this young man one day. He was their translator in the village. The ration packs, we always frowned on the hard rations because they’re boil-in-the-bag, kind of bland tasteless food. Anyway he looked at them and he said, “This will feed my family for four days,” or something like this, and we just take it for granted because each ration pack or hard ration was one meal for a Canadian, and when he said his family he meant approximately six people.