[PRCo] Re: Pittsburgh-Some Place Special

Harold Geissenheimer transitmgr2 at earthlink.net
Sat Jan 18 13:26:09 EST 2003


Greetings

Richard King Mellon was a National Guard General who attended
drill regularly.  He was Federally recognized  and did his job!.
If the Church could not get him into heaven, the military might.
He believed in Pittsburgh and did much good.

Harold Geissenheimer

Bob Rathke wrote:

> > The man remembered that there was a tremendous cultural diversity in
> McKeesport
> > in his youth ... we're only taking the 1920s here.  He pointed out that
> when
> > mothers wanted to borrow a cup of sugar or an egg from a neighbor,  they
> sent
> > the kids out on the errand.  Why?  The parents spoke Polish, or Italian,
> or
> > German, or a Slavic tongue but the kids all spoke English ... the children
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