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Thanks Kabar. Yes I am working on some sort of backup so your suggestion is welcomed.

My cousin, as you know, wrote the book “McLaughlin’s Mountain”, about my descendants and West Virginia, which they adored.

I hear tell that they never met a whiskey drink they didn’t like but my father and that cousin who wrote the book....our fathers never drank a lick.

[kabar]

I hear tell that they never met a whiskey drink they didn’t like but my father and that cousin who wrote the book....our fathers never drank a lick.

My father was one of ten children, seven boys and three girls. They fit the traditional mold of the stereotypes of Irishmen. My grandfather owned a bar during the days of Prohibition. His sons were constantly getting into fights and in trouble with the law. That said, five of them served honorably in WWII.

[kabar]

Here is my great uncle, Mickey Russell, my grandmother's brother who is in the NJ Boxing Hall of Fame. His life typifies the rough and tumble life of the times.