From Hidden Brain Media, I'm Shankharved Anthem. This is my unsung

hero, stories where one person reached out to help another in a time of need.

My unsung hero was my...

Max saw me came over and asked how I was doing and if I needed help.

So whoever you are, thank you so much.

This week's story comes from Walter Delgado.

Walter grew up in El Salvador.

When he was young, his mother moved to the United States to earn money for their family.

So Walter lived with his grandparents. My mom one

they called me and she said do you want to come to United States? And obviously I was

11 years old and I kept hearing good things about the United States and I said yes when do I leave.

The first part of the trip we were traveling in buses. It was all the way until we got to the Mexican border with the USA that that's when things got serious and we were all in a warehouse

and I'm talking about like 200 300 people in a big warehouse.

And one time they came and say, okay, we're ready

and we're gonna walk through the desert

an entire night.

And that's when it hit me. I was like, wow, I was traveling with my grandfather.

I was 11 and he was old, so I was like, this is going to be rough and we started walking and I remember

that I was wearing the worst shoes you can choose to to walk in the desert I was wearing the words it was uncomfortable, rough. It was dark and we were not prepared for those temperatures. I mean, again, we come from Central America over there is tropical weather nobody was

prepared and the whole time we were cold we were walking I could hear women

crying and you know, like sometimes they're complaining of pain,

their legs, and, you know, heavy breathing, all those things are the most that I remember. I met Modesto along the way. For the most part,

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