ONCE UPON A TIME

I've probably posted this 1943 photo of me and my siblings before. The oldest is in the middle back row, Tommy, later to become Father Campion, Franciscan friar, to his left Jimmy, we called Buddy, to his right William, we called by his middle name Robert, in front of him Joan, next to her Irene, known as Little Irene to distinguish her from our mother, known as Big Irene, and between her and me would have been John, who died as an infant before I was born. We had four cousins on one side of us, a family with ten kids on the other, and one with four across the street. Twenty-four kids in four houses. Thems was da days.