I fail to see what Uncle Leo and Daddy Harry have to do with Rudy today.
"I fail to see what Uncle Leo and Daddy Harry have to do with Rudy today."
Lots of folks believe that apples don't fall far from the tree. Certainly, ones parents shape a child's perceptions of the world. According to others, his extended family harbored a junkie, a crooked cop and a murky mob wing. I'm not saying that he would follow in his father's footsteps, merely that the family that raised him had little in common with the family of your typical rural evangelical.
Right on. This is America. You don't have to do and be what your daddy was. You can, but you don't have to. How can he, or any of us, be responsible for what our ancestors (even near ones) did? Ever hear of ex post facto? Hmm?