My Past

                                                               ABC’s Mistake                    On one of ABC’s recent news broadcast, they showed a video of a bunch of people watching and recording other people in front of them shooting their guns at explosives a little over a mile away. As they showed the video, they described the situation as a “Turkish bombing of Syria”. ABC’s anchors went on saying how horrific it was and how bad it was as the people just sat there and recorded, but in reality it wasn’t horrific. Shortly after the video aired people who were there recording spoke up and said it wasn’t actually a gun fight and bombing in Syria, but a gun event in Kentucky. The video was taken on land of a Kentucky gun range as a “night gun representation”. It was only a day ...

              My Dads side of the family isn’t a very interesting story, my Grandmother and Grandfather and their parents have lived in Chicago all their lives. When he was younger, my grandpa lived and worked on a farm, later moving to the city where he met my grandmother, they later got married and had my Dad and 2 aunts. My mothers side however is a loooooooong line of family members and cousins. Many many cousins. My moms mom lived in Chicago like my other grandparents, but my grandfather and all his brothers, sisters, and their couples brothers and sisters all moved here from Italy. My name was originally going to be Antonio like my grandfathers, but now it’s just my middle name.                 Most live in Bridgeport where they basically own half the street, so if I wanted to see my 3rd cousin, I’d walk down three buildings, 2nd cousin, 2 buildings. Unlike my dads side, 99% of everyone knows and loves eac...