My Turn: A paperboy grows up, goes to war
Photo credit: AP | After Pearl Harbor attack, President Roosevelt delivers his “Infamy” speech to Congress in a radio broadcast to millions of Americans.
In the late 1930s, I delivered the Long Island Press newspaper [a daily publication that closed in 1977] to 110 families in the Laurelton section of Queens. From the very start, thanks to my parents, I learned what it took to be a small-business owner. I was 15 or 16 years old.
To begin with, you had to have a sturdy bike, which I already had, but it had to be equipped with a heavy steel basket,...
