Ralph, I hope you understand the valued insights you prove with the many comments you have posted on various pages of this website. An advanced age senior citizen with the mental abilities you have is a very rare asset to this local history blog. I, and a number of my very valuable visitors are a decade or so behind you in age, and they also have been the source of incredibly valuable history. Mike Kuzma, Noel Goeke, and other loyal visitors have also added immeasurably to the value and viability of this site. The comment below arrived today from Ralph and was the catalyst for my comment above:RALPH LUCARELLA said...
HI TOM...I'M ONE GUYS WHO WAS BORN AT THE END OF WORLD WAS 1 AND RECALL MY FATHER GETTING DRAFTED AT FORT DIX. I'M TOLD THEY DRILLED WITH BROOM STICKS IN PLACE OF RIFLES. HE WAS LUCKY TO GET CALLED AT THE END. I CAN REMEMBER CHAMBERSBURG AND THE THANKFUL RESPONSE TO THE ROEBLING PLANT THAT SUPPLIED THE AREA WITH WORK. THE WONDERFUL SMELL OF TOMATO PIES AS YOU WALKED PAST PAPA'S ON BUTLER STREET. THE PUSH CARTS AND STREET CLEANERS THAT KEPT THE STREETS CLEAN AND THE TRUCKS THAT CANVASSED THE NEIGHBORHOOD WITH FRUIT AND VEGETABLES. CARS WERE NOT A PROBLEM YET WHILE EVERYONE WALKED OR RODE A BIKE TO WHERE THEY WERE GOING. YOUR SITE BRINGS BACK ALL THOSE MEMORIES FOR THE OLD TIMERS TO CHERISH. MAY GOD BLESS US ALL IN OUR OLD AGE AND PRAY THAT TODAY'S PROBLEMS ARE SOLVED. BEST REGARDS.
THANK YOU VERY MUCH TOM FOR THE KIND COMMENT BUT MY AGE IS NOTHING GREAT COMPARED WITH WHAT MY TWO BROTHERS WERE ABLE TO ACCOMPLISH. MY OLDER BROTHER LOU, IN SPITE OF MANY HEALTH PROBLEMS,CREATED OPPORTUNITES TO ADVANCE HIMSELF IN MANY WAYS AND MY YOUNGER BROTHER "CHUCK" ALSO OVERCAME MANY BAD FACTORS TO BECOME A DOCTOR OF MEDICINE AND AS A YOUTH PLAYED ON THE SCHROTHS AMERICAN LEGION WORLD CHAMPIONS IN 1948. THEY BOTH PASSED AWAY TOO SOON AND MAY GOD BLESS THEM AND MAY THEY REST IN PEACE. THANKS AGAIN AND BEST REGARDS.
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