Her mom and her had a ball of rice at breakfast and dinner. I believe her sister was a baby and nursing (trying to).
She said she was SO jealous of her two older brothers that got TWO balls of rice for breakfast. “But they had to work the neighbors’ fields to earn money - my mom and baby and I just had to beg.”
Her dad had been in the S. Vietnamese military. One day he was called into the police station. The family didn’t hear from him or about him for three years. They thought he was executed as the government wouldn’t tell them anything. He survived prison (6 years??) and they moved to the USA later on.
“”She said she was SO jealous of her two older brothers that got TWO balls of rice for breakfast. “But they had to work the neighbors’ fields to earn money - my mom and baby and I just had to beg.”””
Something preppers overlook is that you can’t split the food equally, the young men will die with their hot burning metabolisms.
In the Korean War, we learned that the older men survived being prisoners more often than the younger men, it was because the older men’s bodies with their slower metabolisms could survive on the reduced calories while the younger ones burnt through the calories too quickly.
Grandpa and the 17-year-old, don’t get the exact same rationed calories if you have to ration it.
I get it. Apoligies if the jest was in bad, err, taste. You know, two balls of rice, two girls, one eats two, the other...
I’ve heard post-WWII near-starvation stories from family. Sucks to be there.