9/11 oral history project: Ronald King
Photo credit: Handout | An undated photo of Ronald King, who volunteered from Sept. 14, 2001 through December. King credits U.S. aid for his childhood survival and felt compelled to work at Ground Zero in the months after the attack.
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When Ronald King was 8 years old and growing up in Guyana, his father died, leaving his family penniless. The only thing he and his mother had to eat were packages of cornmeal and powdered milk from the United States.
"I can see those packages clearly - 'USA Not to Be Sold' - and I can see my mother going to the cupboard. For me it was a lifeline," King, 50, told an interviewer for the oral...
