They scooped the garbage into sacks and bandanas, until Daniel, horrified, compelled them to stop. “You said we could,” the man said. “You promised. We work.” “No, no! Listen! I’ll get you food! Clean food! Put that garbage back.” The group gripped their sacks tightly to their chests. “Come back at six, and there will be food for you!”[6] From then on, a new rule was implemented: no man would take any food he didn’t fully intend to eat, and any food that wasn’t eaten—a piece of potato or a heel of bread—was set aside in clean containers and given to the starving Italians.
