i'll start with when i get drafted i was assigned to the air force in those days of zombie air force not united states air force and it took my basic training down in miami beach because mom always told me to go first class and that's the basic training he had assigned to drill field in tampa florida which today is tampa international airport and i was  signed to the us military police unit so we patrolled around the base who patrolled in town and try to keep the guys from getting in trouble while while there i became ill and i had to have surgery and i was at the base hospital and they gave me as when i was became ambulatory they came in medical furlough and i'm sitting on a train wait and go home to recuperate and one of my fellow employees came on and says come on come with me i says no i'm going home he says no no the come up with me so he says your orders have been changed i go back to the barracks area get information on a troop train i'm now in the infantry and i'm going to louisiana for advanced infantry training so we get to louisiana it's raining cats and dogs for three days miserable weather those people can live there and the bugs it's because it's mostly  and i was there three days and they found out they sent me to the wrong place so i had to get back on the troop train and it was midnight christmas eve and they had all the shades drawn you could drive with lights on but they had all the lights and all you could hear was the clickety clack of the train wheels on a trike i looked at my watch it's midnight i says my god what the hell am i doing here i should be home my mother is just about ready to serve the seven fishes for christmas eve but anyway we get to camp gordon georgia four o'clock in the morning in the middle of a rainstorm i got to believe that iran rained down south all the time so we walked a mile to the barracks syria and we passed out they walk us up for christmas dinner and some of them were too tired to even go to georgia mud which is like so if you're going up a little incline you take one step forward and two back so you slide back and we finish the training and it's a good thing my mother thought of me all the time s they didn't know was that my mother had a bottle of dandelion wine in there it was cold it was january and keep me warm at night especially when you sleep on the ground and it's wet and and cold so anyway survived that in the meantime at the hospital when i was in the effort then surgery on my back and i had an open first person they did that procedure to and it worked because the war i was in they had previous procedures they had done the guys weren't healing and they tried this something new with a carve out the whole infected area and then pack it so it doesn't heal and the flesh grows out again and replaces what they removed and successful i never had any problem since so i like to say thank  the first for nari came to sicily in the year twelve hundred twenty nine was a degree from the pope to the young professor rico baba rose of the second to start a program where they would teach one language those are all the syrian people would speak one language and it would be easy to indoctrinate them in christianity because sicily had been invaded fifteen different times and every occupying force has left their influence there and that's why you have such a mishmash of dialects because a lot of them into married and they left their influence there so you have thanks to tom my parents came from it was two towns it was like a triangle they couldn't understand what the people in the other two towns are saying they spoke a different dialect so it's unbelievable but to give you a little history i was one of the roaring twenty's i lived through the great depression which was one of the best teachers you could ever have you learn how to react with people and then i was involved in world war two the military and i can remember being in a vauxhall and saying so when the fall of a good home alive today i'm a great grandparent i go for great grandchildren god was good to me and i went through all of these the european theat degree she was traveling for you throughout europe when she had time off and she went to visit garmisch patton kirchen and she says you were right it doesn't exist and i can't forget that place because when we approach the know what's going on so we sent out patrols fortunately i didn't have to be one of them i was hunkered down behind a bank behind the tree trying to stay safe so you always take cover rule number and by the time we we got the ins broke the cat the capital of korea i think it was the capital no it was one of the big cities there but it's right on the bend a pass where you go into italy ended the city gave up with us having to fire a shot because they know that if they started shooting at us we would destroy the city like i don't know if you have us up which is of munich to the wall it was in a building left standing i mean total destruction you keith him visualize this because you'd have to see the believe it but anyway we will a little town just east of as it broke we were supposed to meet up with the russian army when the war ran there was a little town called she was and then she was we found prisoner of war camp th germans will use them and it was stocked with all russian people who are working in the shop that was built inside of a mountain so it was just unbelievable and this was a big if you will there and that was whe they could never catch that plane it was too fast so the they would know we were our planes were coming they would go up to a high elevation like thirty thousand feet and when the american planes passed beneath them they would dive down a notice to all italian prisoners who worked in the slave labor camps in germany these were all political prisoners the miscellany had to get out of the simply because they were his opposition and they were assigned to work a slave labor and they were really mistreated and the word went out his company is brought them in american army we'll provide transportation for you and document you can get back to early because they have no passports and any paperwork so they would come just a way they could come walk crawl run drag whatever but they would get there and we get about two three thousand of them make up a train load and there was one track open between his book and the city both zama mother really and we take them down there and the italian red cross would meet us and i can remember unfortunately i was the only guy to speak italian and everybody became they needed something and if you got hundreds of people asking you questions all at the same time after a while your head gets this big can you know me you have seen this guy in my life i says are you sure i know you but i don't recognize you so i don't know what made me ask the stupid questions just start talking to town and so i knew he was a t head he says and i don't recognize the name so then i remember during the depression somebody allowed my father to plant some land that they own and while we work in the  and he tells me my grandfather's nickname the family nickname that of his family and of my mother's family then i remembered and this is the guy well you may not know me by my surname you probably know me by the family in the name when i told him that because i know the whole family so and we made acquaintance and they made me promise that if i got a chance i'd go down and visit the cousins because they got a ton of cousins that on there and as a matter fact they talk to one now on skype it's great and i says to her hey maria you understand how i am but i'm telling you she says just like you will bomb here because that's all we spoke at home s and when my mother and father came in one thousand nine hundred eleven the dialect that they were speaking then never changed because it was an influenced by any outside force so i was speaking pure one nine hundred eleven the italian red cross and i don't know what they did with them i understood that they would give transportation to the capital of the province they came from and among being i mean i just think of it i get emotional it's so vivid i could still see it but that was over no points i didn't have enough points to come home they took my division one hundred thirty cactus the vision and they brought all high point men in more and while there general eisenhower who was not president yet issued an order that every american g i possible who could be taken to the death camps would have to go there and see because he wanted eyewitnesses because he says the world will not believe what the germans did there got the same treatment but anyway that was quite an experience and i don't want to remember it but unfortunately can over remember and then from there we had some more advanced than for a tree trainee you know i said what the hell are we training for the war is over we're supposed to be going home next thing you know we ship to england and we're in a little town in england when came the day before we were supposed to ship out that we were going to be in the invasion of japan because we all had combat experience and that night while watching the movie one of the black and white movies b movies they call them and halfway through the movie the lights go on and this officer gets up on the stage so loud or just like th shown the film on lit up and he says gentlemen i want to make an announcement he says japan just surrender now that very morning they had told us we were going to go to the invasion of japan and the quartermaster corps had hearted one million bodybags that's how many casualties they expected now all of a sudden this announcement everybody stunned you c hear a pin drop hollywood could never depict that scene and after the information it sunk in bedlam broke loose you never saw grown men and he says because the ship is ready to sail and because you men have all been processed you're going to go board ship as was planned this is only you're going home well i guess they're cheering you couldn't believe happiness it was an economy course the flight that and we get on the ship the next morning bands playing everybody waving goodbye you know all those civilians from the on the water and i'm standing on the promenade deck the front of the ship and looking down the ship's going right down the middle of that little path as if god put it to say this is the way home and the band is playing in the upper decks of the offices of dancing with the wax and the nurses with all the female personnel and doris day is thinking sentimental  we get to new york and somebody says hey if you go on the up and take you can see the rockets dancing along the ferry well they built a platform on one of the ferry boats in new york so everybody rushes then everybody runs over to go see the rockets which ship is going this way the rockets are coming along and kicking their legs up and here on first time some of those guys are like a woman's leg and a long time so  the captain is yelling on the sound system gentlemen half way you go on the other side of the ship he says we're going to capsize because the ship went like this the way to fourteen thousand read on one side of the ship so if you go any of us there you can see the statue of liberty and the next thing you know the ship goes like this we're going to sink i still never get home but we made it and we get state didn't make any difference and i saw guys go in there who had been eaten k rations for a long time and but in the belts because they read so much that they couldn't stop even they would you know  so hungry for food real food their arms and then they gave home we went home but another to real live i can tell these stories forever one hundred sixty five pages and i'm only one third of the way through and i have to do it all from memory because i never took notes but that was i like to talk about the good times