Last summer,I got a call from a woman named Ellie.
And she had heard about the family separations at the southern border and wanted to know what she could do to help.
She told me the story of her grandfather and his father.
When they were kids in Poland,their father,fearing for his son's safety, gave them a little bit of money and told them to walk west,to just keep walking west across Europe.
And they did.
They walked all the way west across Europe, and they got on a boat and they got to America.
Ellie said that when she heard the stories of the teens walking up across Mexico, all she could think about was her grandfather and his brother.
She said that for her,the stories were exactly the same.
Those brothers were the Hassenfeld Brothers -- the "Has"
"bros" -- the Hasbro toy company,which,of course,brought us Mr. Potato Head.
