My father went into the Navy and Uncle Nick and Jack in the Army and Uncle Benny in the Marine Corps. My father served aboard a battleship and according to his sea bag after he crossed over, was in Saipan, Tarawa and the Philippines etc. My uncle Nick, who was the oldest was in Hawaii,…
I remember the day when all my uncles came back from the War. I heard the sirens from the mining company go off to let the people know that the buses would be arriving with the soldiers coming home. I was in the kitchen with grandma Andreita. “Tia” Mariana was somewhere in the house when…
Hurley is the name of the village where I was raised by maternal grandparents through the 1940’s. At five years of age, I had to attend the “baby grade” primarily to prepare to learn Basic English and to continue on academically. The village was segregated more by choice because of the language barrier. However; all…