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Uncle SPAM

The Experiment

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The American Way of Life and Freedom

My dad told me that to adre world war too he was a young boy. And after the japanese troops invaded the philippines, they began committing war crimes. For him, spam meant opportunity, a hope that something better is coming. It became his mission in life to move his family eventually to the us. His son, my uncle, was the person in my family to emigrate here. He would send care packages back to my family in thephilippines that we call balic bion, boxes full of spam. After milolo caught his first can of spam, he fell in love with the idea of american freedom.

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