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Who am I?

I was born healthy, not wealthy, on July 31, 1943, the eldest son of Virgil V. McCall and Luella May Heath.  Virgil V. is the son of Clifford, who is the son of Elmer Allen, who is the son of Allen, who is the son of Samuel McCall and Else Davis.  Sam and Else were born in the early 1770’s and settled in Butler County, Pennsylvania in 1802 along the banks of Muddy Creek.  Samuel was a Scot, whose parents likely migrated via Ireland to the Colonies.  Dad and Mom were born and raised in Butler County.  They married in 1940 at Cumberland, Maryland.  I was born just 30 days before my Dad left for Army basic training.  Dad completed training and returned on leave in December 1943 to visit Mom, at which time my Brother, Denny, was created.  Then, my Dad departed for North Africa to join General George Patton, whose outfit would battle the Desert Fox, German General Rommel.  Dad’s Thunderbirds would move on to Sicily and to Italy.  Dad returned to America in 1945, wounded and with undulant fever, to join his family, now of three.

My Brother, Denny was born September 22, 1944, while Dad was gone.  Mom, Denny and I lived in a little house on Third Avenue in Brackenridge, Pa. about 18 miles NE of Pittsburgh on the Allegheny River in the mountains.  Once Dad returned, we moved into larger quarters at 301 Cherry Street in Brackenridge.  The two primary industries in our area were steel making and coal mining. 

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