Comments by "christine paris" (@christineparis5607) on "USS Alliance and the Last Battle of the American Revolution" video.

  1. My Irish ancestors were too tired from starving in Ireland to fight anyone, when they emigrated to America they had more energy from eating actual food and not chewing grass, to join in and do more. My dads people became pretty successful once they were in Boston, then spread out. From what he told me, they were dying like flies.
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  2.  @FuzzyMarineVet  I'm 60, and my parents had me late in their lives, so my dad grew up in the 20s and 30s. He told me of going to work in Boston at ten years old, running messages and errands for a record company, run by these old Jewish gentlemen (I don't remember which record company it was) who spoke Yiddish in the offices. Dad could speak Yiddish in no time. He was dropped off later at a boarding school because his French mother deserted the family for a boxer. He was left there alone pretty much. He didn't graduate from anything but joined the Navy after lying about his age. Went through the war and ended up in San Francisco, then doggedly worked, step by step, up the ladder in banking, finally becoming Vice President at Wells Fargo. As an adult, I am fascinated at the times he lived through, and his determination to make something of himself no matter what obstacles were thrown at him. He was quite the renaissance man, taking up photography, flying, running a book company and teaching banking courses at the college in Palo Alto. As I grew up, he just never seemed to sleep, and was always busy with some big project. I discovered years later that a lot of his "mad men" era energy was fueled by unbelievable amounts of alcohol, coffee and drugs. He was enthusiastic about trying EVERYTHING. He lived to his 90s, even though he was a tremendous alcoholic. Irish stamina, I guess...
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