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We had been it, our friends, the DeLeons, had a good invited to visit the ‘ejido’ or communal crop. They made $5,600 on their corn town in the Mexican state of Tamauli- that fall. It was what a family of twelve pas where some of our friends in the had to live on for the year. DeLeon felt Texas town of Weslaco were from. himself fortunate. He wouldn’t have to The ejidos were founded in the wake ‘go north’ and look for work that year. you see here is thirty years or more of of the Mexican Revolution. Land was The afternoon after we arrived, all the men ‘going north’ to work. They saved confi scated and handed over to the men sat around a fi re in the front yard the money they brought back and ‘campesinos’ who were allowed to form of his ‘old’ house. They had killed a pig bought a few blocks here and there. little settlements. the day before and we were boiling the They would put in a foundation and The land was owned in common. fat for lard and chitterlings. His young- then, perhaps, the next year, a wall.” He Each family was doled out a share of est daughter was sitting on the porch gave a big sigh. “None of us ever want land, which they could work, but not with her mother and sister, visiting her to go north. Everyone would rather stay sell. ‘novio.’ here, in Mexico, and work, but there are We had great, long talks at the store I asked him, “Why the two houses, no jobs. We love it here.” After another and around the fi re that week. The men side by side?” The ‘old’ was made of sigh, we both climbed down a wooden enjoyed being able to exchange views traditional ‘lumbre,’ literally a wood ladder to the ground. We had a won- with a ‘bolillo’ (literally, ‘white bread’) fence daubed with adobe mud and cov- derful week there and before we left, who could speak such good Span- ered by a thatch roof. The new house the people of that town, ’Ejido Lázaro ish. The North American Free Trade was ‘American style,’ concrete block, Cárdinas,’ bestowed on us their highest Agreement was about to arrive and iron-framed windows with what would honor. They offered us a share in their they were scared. No one wanted it. soon be a poured concrete roof replete ejido, a place where we could put our They felt like their livelihood from their with gables. Daughter and son-in-law- own thatched roof, and the chance to corn crops would disappear. The grain to-be were rocking on the porch. move to Mexico. prices in Mexico were protected by a DeLeon took me up on the roof of Six years later, under NAFTA, the high tariff that kept American grain out his house-in-progress and showed tariffs that Mexico used to protect their and by price supports that guaranteed me the entire town. There were many grain markets were removed. The last the farmer in Mexico something for his ‘American-style houses’ like his with a time I heard of the DeLeon’s, they had work. They showed me their fi elds. It thatched roof alongside. He said, “What legally moved to Houston. LLetteretter ttoo tthehe eeditorditor Thanks for supporting Carlson Christmas Drop On behalf of the Christian Women’s Fellowship, I would folks on Carlson for their hospitality and delicious meal, like to say thank you to all who supported the Carlson and our boat captains (Alan, Bob, Brian, John and Rick). Christmas Drop. We received many donations from the Please accept our heartfelt thanks to all who supported community and for that we are very grateful. We would es- CWF in this endeavor. pecially like to thank the Host Nations Offi ce for their sup- port, the Yokwe Yuk Women’s Club, the junior high youth — Jane DeJoie, Missions chair, group and Michael Kautz for their generous donations, the Christian Women’s Fellowship TThehe KwajaleinKwajalein HHourglassourglass The Kwajalein Hourglass is named fi cial views of, or endorsed by, the U.S. Printed circulation: 2,000 for the insignia of the U.S. Army 7th Government, Department of Defense, Fax number: 52063 Infantry Division, which liberated the Department of the Army or USAKA. It is E-mail: [email protected] island from the forces of Imperial Ja- published Wednesdays and Saturdays in pan on Feb. 4, 1944. accordance with Army Regulation 360-1 Commanding Offi cer..........COL Beverly Stipe The Kwajalein Hourglass is an au- and using a network printer by Kwajalein Public Affairs Offi cer.....................Sandy Miller thorized publication for military per- Range Services editorial staff. Editor.....................................Nell Drumheller sonnel, federal employees, contractor P.O. Box 23, APO AP 96555 Graphics Designer.........................Dan Adler workers and their families assigned to Phone: Defense Switching Network High School Volunteer.............Lisa Barbella U.S. Army Kwajalein Atoll. Contents of 254-3539 Circulation..............................Will O'Connell the Hourglass are not necessarily of- Local phone: 53539 The Kwajalein Hourglass 2 Wednesday, April 19, 2006 Public Internet hardware repaired, will Surf’s up provide safer, secure service, password accounts must be obtained before using By Nell M. Drumheller we had to move to a different soft- Badge for verifi cation,” Galloway Editor ware platform, which caused the said. majority of the delay.” All K-Badge holders 18 or Kwajalein Range Services Infor- The new system, which is free, older with a current contract mation Technology department will improve home Internet service or position with U.S. Army is ready to put the new public on Kwajalein by providing a better, Kwajalein Atoll or an approved Internet service into affect. safer surfi ng experience according tenant company or authorized “The new system is already up to Galloway. personnel at USAKA/RTS on and running. You can login us- “We’ve put in a new, larger mo- temporary duty status are au- ing the account and password dem bank so we’re moving from thorized a public Internet ac- that was sent to you previously. 72 to 120 connections. Also, we count. K-Badge holders who We are now processing accounts will be increasing the login time are under 18 can obtain an ac- again, so those users who from two to four hours. IT will be cess account with approval of a haven’t received their accounts able to disable the account for any parent/guardian, who must al- in the mail they will be sent out user in the community who may so sign for the account. shortly,” said David Galloway, be broadcasting viruses and/or If a customer signed up for an Public Networks administrator. malicious traffi c, therefore provid- account last fall, they can use “We’ve been testing the new ing a safer “surfi ng” experience for their previous username and dial-in service successfully for the Kwajalein and Roi community. password now. over a month,” he said. We are also looking into the option The changeover to the new The public Internet was re- of having a Community Intranet system is a result of warnings vamped in October, but quickly page,” he said. received by USAKA from the pulled after some glitches were There’s been an improvement stateside based Internet Service identifi ed. over the system initiated in Octo- Provider. “Increased security Galloway explained what hap- ber. The two primary changes were requirements must be imple- pened, “The project was never the software platform used and mented. In order to ensure that cancelled; it was just delayed. the network layout. “We set up IT can identify individual ma- The system suffered a major and created a new segment on the chines that are broadcasting hardware failure just days be- fi rewall for the public internet, so viruses and/or malicious traffi c, fore the old number was due to people will have a different proxy unique user ID’s and passwords be disabled. This problem was IP address for their browser,” Gal- are now going to be required,” resolved, but the project contin- loway said. Galloway said. ued to be delayed. On the cur- Establishing an account with the “While this is not new, users rent track of using a Microsoft new system is relatively easy. Us- are reminded that they are re- based product, it would have ers must fi ll out a user agreement sponsible for maintaining virus cost approximately $260,000 so form which can be found at the IT protection on their home PCs. Help Desk, the Grace Sherwood Li- There are several different op- brary or the IT – Forms section of tions available to home-users to the business Intranet. Completed protect themselves from viruses.