pedin.com

08/27/08

Words to Live By...

The secret of happiness is freedom, and the secret of freedom is a brave heart. -- Pericles
This above all: to thine own self be true. -- Shakespeare
Nothing ever becomes real until it is experienced; even a proverb is no proverb till your life has illustrated it. -- Anonymous
You have to va (go) to fa (do) to sa (know). -- Grandpa's Original in Italian

In December 2000, my Grandpa was diagnosed with congestive heart failure. Five months later, he started writing this first chapter of his memoirs. After a couple pages he stopped... for open heart surgery.

Two months later he returned to his memoirs, completing Chapter 1 on September 9th. He begins his story on that same date in 1934...

I. Getting on the USS Bache, DD 470

II. Court-martialed by Captain Bligh

email Hugo Cipriani

VA FA SA: A Young Man's Memoir

I. Looking Back

II. Camp Commuche

III. Making My Way

IV. My Hometown

V. The Great Depression

VI. The Lost Years

VII. Walking in the Dark

VIII. My Most Memorable Day

IX. Six Units at UCLA

X. Working with Love

XI. Va Fa Sa at UCLA

XII. The Art of Living

XIII. The Art of Hitchhiking

XIV. The Best Years, 1939

XV. The Best Years, 1940

XVI. From UCLA to Lockheed

XVII. Bombers for Britain

XVIII. Pearl Harbor

email Hugo Cipriani

Google Books

Italian American Press