Here’s a guy I met in downtown Galle, Sri Lanka, who was very happy to meet me and help me out because I was an American, and US aid had helped him and his family after the tsunami of 2006. Even though it’s 6 years later, people here still talk about it as if it happened yesterday. And to realize what happened to this guy, compared to the stuff we usually have to complain about in our country, it kind of sets you straight.