Great two posts bill and willow. I feel, like you guys, that we need to always think of context when we sum up the lives of our forebears because, for example, all my english/irish friends had dads that went to the pub nearly everyday and of the 8 of the lads and girls I knew who had irish parents all our dads worked hard and loved a drink. So I can't say "couldn't they have gone to the health club instead or go online and read about alcoholism etc. They had their own pressures and stresses. My dad was brutalised by his dad who was a religious fanatic and he witnessed murders and accidents at work on building sites as a matter of course.
Men hit women back then and fathers hit their boys. That is just the norm back then.
The fact that you were friends with jake, willow, means you see the vast difference between what media like to portray and what the truth really is.
The one take away I got from reading about him and watching docs and of course Raging Bull was that he was an extremely charismatic man in every way. It seemed he had a great sense of humour about his life too which warms my heart.
Men hit women back then and fathers hit their boys. That is just the norm back then.
The fact that you were friends with jake, willow, means you see the vast difference between what media like to portray and what the truth really is.
The one take away I got from reading about him and watching docs and of course Raging Bull was that he was an extremely charismatic man in every way. It seemed he had a great sense of humour about his life too which warms my heart.
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