For archival purposes only. Someday we will want to know how this discussion began.
A huge "thank you" to a reader for sending me this story.
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Note to the granddaughters
Every summer you spend a few weeks with us in San Pedro, California, where your great-grandfather and great-grandmother lived, worked, and retired after "their" 30+ year career in the US Army, which included one tour in Korea, and two tours in Vietnam. They had a "tough" life as "they" say, but they did well, leaving a small home for you to visit when you come out to southern California.
Tonight while relaxing I was reading the story of the "Pirozzi" family here in San Pedro re-opening their deli after it had been closed for many, many years. The patriarch of the family built a thriving deli but stepped down and sold the deli when his children were approaching their late teens so they wouldn't feel compelled to follow his steps into the deli business. He wanted them to go to college, and be free to make their own choices for their livelihoods.
After several unsuccessful ventures in that building in the interim after the Pirozzis left, the children have "come back" and voiced a desire to re-open the deli, partly because of so many good memories of the deli when they were growing up. It was their home. I think of John-John in the Oval Office.
The story is told in the San Pedro Today, a local glossy, the August, 2012, issue.
The Pirozzi diner reminds me of the diner we enjoyed so much when you first moved to Belmont, Massachusetts: the Andros Diner on Trapelo Road. That diner has now changed hands and has recently re-opened as The Sweet Peach.
I probably would have skipped through the article on the "new" Pirozzi Deli except that the following jumped out at me:
... Vince Pirozzi, became very emotional when speaking of what it means to reopen in San Pedro, where he arrived from Italy in 1958 and never left. Tearing up, Pirozzi struggled to find the words to articulate how grateful he is to the community for its outpouring of support.This is what his father did; he made it. Something Mr Obama doesn't get.
"For me it is a legacy, this is what my father did, he made this," Enza Pirozzi said. "He came here from Italy with nothing, and he made a legacy in San Pedro. It took a lot of risk to do what he did, to open a business. He went from having nothing to being able to support and provide for us."
Have you read the Manchurian President by Aaron Klein? It is about the ties of Obama's upbringing to socialist agenda. Very much along these lines. I read someplace that Obama is back to reading teleprompter so he doesn't show his real thoughts.
ReplyDeleteYou are correct about the teleprompter.
DeleteRegardless of one's political leanings, one has to admit "we" know less about the history of this president than any other US president. The single source of information on his first two decades of life appear to be from HIS book.
Not a day goes by that I don't think this whole thing gets "curiouser and curiouser." The fact that Columbia University admits they were unable to find record of his 2nd year was the most recent eye-opener. But ten years from community organizer to president of the United States and the mainstream media accepts it as proof that "anyone can grow up to be POTUS."