Robert Berry

'Hoboken, the Land of Plenty' (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

My father was an immigrant from Italy. He came to America and had a hard beginning. However, he was a proud man and would never take any kind of abuse, either verbal or physical from anyone. As an Italian, he was treated poorly on job places and usually quit the same day after attacking his supervisor. I was the only person in our Italian family who was intrigued by some of my father's stories, and it was therefore the reason why I began interviewing him as often as I could to gather information about his life. I told him that I wanted nothing but the truth, and he agreed that the information I would gather would be the absolute truth. My family was intrigued by how I put his story in an understandable chronology of events, and it was they who told me that I should put the information in book form. My friends who read my manuscript said that once they started to read the book, they couldn't put it down.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Xlibris US
• Seitenzahl: 138
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. September 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781514403105
• Artikelnr.: 52593508

Autorenporträt

I was born during the Depression. My mother was a very sick woman from the time of my birth in 1932. She was unable to care for me, so I was living in the home of another family, who raised me as their own. After graduating from high school, I got married at an early age, and the Korean War was going strong, which made me eligible for the draft. Rather than be drafted into the army, I joined the U.S. Air Force, where I made a twenty-seven-year career. I made the big show in Vietnam, where I was awarded the Bronze Star. I encountered a close-rocket explosion while there, which created hearing and balance problems. I was also exposed to a deadly spray called Agent Orange. As a result of this exposure, I eventually developed diabetes and prostate cancer, rendering me a 100 percent disabled veteran several years after my discharge. During my twenty-seven years of service, I attended universities for numerous years and obtained my college degree. I am the father of a daughter and two sons. I have eight grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. At eighty-three years old, I have much to be thankful for and appreciate every day when I can get out of bed and live life to its fullest.