“…Some Pinoys dropped dead in the fields because of heat and exhaustion. In the 1950s, Demetrio ‘Jimmy’ Ente, a second-generation Pinoy, worked as a sled boy in charge of collecting the asparagus at the end of the rows and conveying it  by truck to the packing shed… ‘There was an old man, I was sledding, and the old man - he must’ve been in his eighties - he died right there, about a couple of lines from me, poor guy… We took his asparagus knife and put it in the ground, and put his hat on it. Some of the guys took his body back to the camps. I’ll never forget that.’”