He admits he felt sad that after the recovery efforts were well under way, the island forgot about the day laborers. He sometimes feels used, but he doesn’t resent his neighbors and doesn’t regret the time he spent helping them. “I was scared, there was disaster as far as the eye could see, I had friends who didn’t make it, people got sick, but we helped each other out. We felt like we were part of the community. We finally felt like we belonged,” he says.
