(upbeat string music) My parents, on both sides, came from Sicily, and my dad came to work in Ford Motor Company when he was about 16 years old, I know my mother and father met somewhere along the way, we have some pictures of them in Belle Isle in canoes when he was courting her and they married at the Holy Family Church, downtown Detroit, but we settled in Highland Park, all our family would always get together, Sundays were a family gathering all the time.

I was drafted in 1959, I had dropped out of college for a while and I was working at the J.L.

Hudson Company in the camera department, and then, at that time, they were doing a lot of drafting and also '59 is when I first came here, and I was trained out to Leonard... Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri, and then, from Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri, my permanent base was a headquarters company at Fort Benning, Georgia, 87th Infantry Division.

After the service, I was able to go to Michigan State and complete my degree in education.

46 years in education.

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