Op-Ed: A 99-Year Mistake: Why S.L.I. 24-03 Betrays Our Children’s Future
I write this not as an abstract policy analyst, but as a Refaluwasch son of Garapan who survived the flames of 1983. I was raised in my grandparents’ home—the same home that burned where my Grandmother and I (God rest her soul) was a victim of when I was a child, the same land that carried our family’s stories, our grief, and our resilience. That fire taught me what loss feels like. But what came after taught me something far more insidious: how our own people, desperate and trusting, can be convinced to sign away their birthright for pennies on the dollar.
