by Maria Gloria

Dear Readers,
Father's Day was last Sunday, so Happy Father's Day to all you fathers, grandfathers, uncles, big brothers and father figures out there, and may happy memories bring a small measure of comfort to readers whose fathers are gone now and hopefully are with the angels.

Fathers who were widowed and suddenly left with young "bambini" to raise are most likely to be found these days resting with the angels. Signora L.F.B. recalls her father Ugo Fratto, a WWII U.S. Army Veteran and P.O.W for nearly two years, after being captured by the Germans. Ugo arrived from Calabria in 1925, when his uncle Frank Morelli sent for him. Ugo worked in his Uncle Frank's Shoe Repair shop in Ambridge, Pennsylvania. 

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Fonte: L'italo-Americano