Hey Brad, I remember “Breaking Away” well also. It represented my neighborhood well too in terms of poor job and college opportunities for lower class whites. About 1/3 of would go in the military, another third to blue collar jobs and the rest would borrow enough for college. But it was a tight neighborhood and many of us still get toge…
Hey Brad, I remember “Breaking Away” well also. It represented my neighborhood well too in terms of poor job and college opportunities for lower class whites. About 1/3 of would go in the military, another third to blue collar jobs and the rest would borrow enough for college. But it was a tight neighborhood and many of us still get together monthly to drink to our friends who are here and those who are not.
Ha! 9th of 10 kids and dad was a bartender. 5 of us boys joined military at 18. Hard work and Jesus’s blessings made it work. Btw one mark of a good leader is the followers they attract and I certainly think you often provide relevant and insightful comments.
What we all would really hope for! I'm curious, with the close history you all had, did you stay connected through it or did you loose people? When the world went upside down.
Our neighborhood was overwhelmingly first and second generation Irish Catholic and we had big families that went to parochial school grades 1-12 together. By the time we were done that, no one else would have us, so we stay together and often married within the parish. Very few were lost to political differences but more than a few were lost to drugs and alcohol. Take care, onevoice.
Hey Brad, I remember “Breaking Away” well also. It represented my neighborhood well too in terms of poor job and college opportunities for lower class whites. About 1/3 of would go in the military, another third to blue collar jobs and the rest would borrow enough for college. But it was a tight neighborhood and many of us still get together monthly to drink to our friends who are here and those who are not.
A perfect slice of the America which our government has abandoned and that Trump resonates with.
So this is your backstory, Libertarian? I like you even more.
Ha! 9th of 10 kids and dad was a bartender. 5 of us boys joined military at 18. Hard work and Jesus’s blessings made it work. Btw one mark of a good leader is the followers they attract and I certainly think you often provide relevant and insightful comments.
You and your family, sir, are the foundation on which this country was built--just the sort of people Sasha and Tucker are talking about.
Praise God from whom all blessings flow….
Amen, brother.
What we all would really hope for! I'm curious, with the close history you all had, did you stay connected through it or did you loose people? When the world went upside down.
Our neighborhood was overwhelmingly first and second generation Irish Catholic and we had big families that went to parochial school grades 1-12 together. By the time we were done that, no one else would have us, so we stay together and often married within the parish. Very few were lost to political differences but more than a few were lost to drugs and alcohol. Take care, onevoice.