cheyenne...he was 63...i never met him...his grandmother in greece kept sending him to the office to get papers to get on a boat to america...they kept rejecting him because he was too young....she would send him back every year...finally, the last time she told him..Do NOT come back...go to america...we don't want you or some such shit...
my dad says his dad held a grudge against his grandmother for the rest of his life...he only returned to greece 1 time the rest of his life...and he wouldn't speak to her...i wrote about one of my uncles once...here was his story...
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Uncle Louie...
when he was 18 in 1949 and living with his family in greece, his dad said you and i are going to live in new york (to escape the communists who were waging a civil war in greece at the time)...we will start a restaurant and then bring the rest of the family...the 2 of them together took the boat, 8 weeks at sea, then arrived in new york...the next day after arriving (and i mean the VERY NEXT DAY), at age 51 his father died of a heart attack in the boarding room they had just rented together...so Louie was then 18, all alone, and didn't speak english...instead of returning to greece, he got a job washing dishes...saved some money then moved to gary, indiana and moved into a tiny house with my dad's family and took a job shoveling coal in the steel mills...after 2 months, he realized he didn't want to spend his life breathing the dust and shoveling coal so he quit and moved to greensboro, north carolina...he got a job as a janitor, sang and played rhythm guitar in a greek band that played weddings on weekends...got married at 24 and started a family...he worked in maintenance at a local company 60 hours per week and struggled with 3 young kids...while also working friday and saturday nights doing wedding gigs with his band...then he decided he couldn't be a janitor and raise a family so he added night school to his busy life...went 3 nights per week for 3 years to satisfy JUST the entrance classes for college...this was at guilford college in greensboro...after he was accepted, he then attended classes at night for the NEXT TEN YEARS...of course while working full-time, raising a family and working weekends as a singer...and at the young age of 42 he got his degree in analytical Chemistry from Guilford...
That was 35 years ago...he has worked as a chemist for an industrial company in greensboro since then...built a hell of a successful career...always getting promoted because everybody loves Louie...(he looks exactly like director Martin Scorsese -- if you want a visual image)...his oldest child Tommy, graduated #1 from his Medical School class and has been an orthopedic surgeon in Charlotte for years now...and his 2 daughters both earned masters degrees and are high-school teachers...
He now has 9 grandchildren, still works, and tells the best jokes of anyone in my family...way to go Louie...you earned everything in your life...
I bought not ONE ONCE but I hold 100 OZ, Lets see guys if we can DESTROY the JEWISH BANKERS.....please BUY SILVER!
NOTICE HOW I MADE THE WORD DESTROY IN BIG LETTERS....BECAUSE I'M A PALESTINIAN AND I WANT TO BURN ANYTHING JEWISH FROM BANKS TO PEOPLE AND WHAT'S IN BETWEEN...I MIGHT EVEN WANT TO BURN THE AMERIKKKANS SAMEWAY...EVEN USE TORTURE ON AMERIKKKANS....I HAVE TIME ON MY HANDS AMERIKKKA THIS PALESTINIAN WILL GET A PIECE OF YOUR ASS AMERIKKKA ONE WAY OR THE OTHER SOON AMERIKKKA WILL FEAR THE WORD PALESTINE!
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my dad says his dad held a grudge against his grandmother for the rest of his life...he only returned to greece 1 time the rest of his life...and he wouldn't speak to her...i wrote about one of my uncles once...here was his story...
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Uncle Louie...
when he was 18 in 1949 and living with his family in greece, his dad said you and i are going to live in new york (to escape the communists who were waging a civil war in greece at the time)...we will start a restaurant and then bring the rest of the family...the 2 of them together took the boat, 8 weeks at sea, then arrived in new york...the next day after arriving (and i mean the VERY NEXT DAY), at age 51 his father died of a heart attack in the boarding room they had just rented together...so Louie was then 18, all alone, and didn't speak english...instead of returning to greece, he got a job washing dishes...saved some money then moved to gary, indiana and moved into a tiny house with my dad's family and took a job shoveling coal in the steel mills...after 2 months, he realized he didn't want to spend his life breathing the dust and shoveling coal so he quit and moved to greensboro, north carolina...he got a job as a janitor, sang and played rhythm guitar in a greek band that played weddings on weekends...got married at 24 and started a family...he worked in maintenance at a local company 60 hours per week and struggled with 3 young kids...while also working friday and saturday nights doing wedding gigs with his band...then he decided he couldn't be a janitor and raise a family so he added night school to his busy life...went 3 nights per week for 3 years to satisfy JUST the entrance classes for college...this was at guilford college in greensboro...after he was accepted, he then attended classes at night for the NEXT TEN YEARS...of course while working full-time, raising a family and working weekends as a singer...and at the young age of 42 he got his degree in analytical Chemistry from Guilford...
That was 35 years ago...he has worked as a chemist for an industrial company in greensboro since then...built a hell of a successful career...always getting promoted because everybody loves Louie...(he looks exactly like director Martin Scorsese -- if you want a visual image)...his oldest child Tommy, graduated #1 from his Medical School class and has been an orthopedic surgeon in Charlotte for years now...and his 2 daughters both earned masters degrees and are high-school teachers...
He now has 9 grandchildren, still works, and tells the best jokes of anyone in my family...way to go Louie...you earned everything in your life...
here's the link with more on my grandfather...
http://dailybail.com/home/site-housekeeping-posting-update.html
NOTICE HOW I MADE THE WORD DESTROY IN BIG LETTERS....BECAUSE I'M A PALESTINIAN AND I WANT TO BURN ANYTHING JEWISH FROM BANKS TO PEOPLE AND WHAT'S IN BETWEEN...I MIGHT EVEN WANT TO BURN THE AMERIKKKANS SAMEWAY...EVEN USE TORTURE ON AMERIKKKANS....I HAVE TIME ON MY HANDS AMERIKKKA THIS PALESTINIAN WILL GET A PIECE OF YOUR ASS AMERIKKKA ONE WAY OR THE OTHER SOON AMERIKKKA WILL FEAR THE WORD PALESTINE!