So what I'm going to do is I'm going to play
you the entry video into it.
All of the videos actually have closed captioning,
but this one won't for one good reason,
which is almost none of it is in English.
You're going to see the famous meeting
of the East and West meeting to shake
hands photo by AJ Russell.
And what I want you to hear is all of the languages of those
who are either displaced by or who worked on
or continue to work on the railroad.
And now-- oh, I see.
OK, this is going to be awkward.
[VIDEO PLAYBACK]
[MANY PEOPLE SPEAKING NON ENGLISH LANGUAGES]
This is the sound of a train.
[NON-ENGLISH SPEAKING CONTINUES]
This is the sound of a train.
[NON-ENGLISH SPEAKING]
We do not ride on the railroad, the railroad rides on us.
[NON-ENGLISH SPEAKING]
OK, and let me see if I can get us to the poem, itself.