To: Alberta's Child
Well, his sister died of malnutrition. I think he probably had a good right to complain about his childhood. Read the book, it’s awesome.
6 posted on
07/20/2009 9:26:48 AM PDT by
ozarkgirl
To: ozarkgirl
Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood. If I remember correctly, he basically just had a drunken bum of a father. I don't know what Ireland or Irish Catholicism had to do with it.
11 posted on
07/20/2009 9:31:30 AM PDT by
Alberta's Child
(God is great, beer is good . . . and people are crazy.)
To: ozarkgirl
It was the Great Depression. Just about everyone was hungry.
17 posted on
07/20/2009 9:37:40 AM PDT by
PghBaldy
(http://www.blackfive.net/main/2009/06/president-obama-visits-wounded-troops.html)
To: ozarkgirl; Alberta's Child; marron
Well, his sister died of malnutrition.Three younger siblings died, all as a result of illness stemming from the family's condition of abject poverty. As the oldest, he witnessed these tragedies up close in his young childhood.
20 posted on
07/20/2009 9:41:38 AM PDT by
Albion Wilde
( Jim Thompson for President.)
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