The beginning

This being my 65th birthday I will begin this blog (diary) for a year reflecting thoughts, memories, feelings etc, etc.

On this day of my birth the Allies who had bound themselves to conquer the evil of Nazism and Fascism divided Germany  and ultimatly all of Europe.  The state of Israel was founded to give a homeland for the Jewish diaspora..  None of that, however,  had anything to do with me directly but  I have been interested in history all my life.
My birth occurred in the evening apparantly  because Dr. Milazzo the GP who delivered me showed up in a tuxedo i was told.
My first memory is  of watching my mother care for one of my younger brothers.  By the time the family was finalized there was 5 of us.  Joseph, myself, Gerald, Thomas and Robert.  My mother Theresa stayed at home while my father Joseph worked all his life as an auto mechanic.
While I write this my father who is on the verge of his 93rd year is in hospice care. Mother died in 2008.
So this brings me, to the thought of the day, my mortality. momento mori!!