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From YouTube: Family Service Honor SOUTHIE
Description
This is the story of one of America's great neighborhoods, South Boston. In this documentary, authentic South Boston military veterans tell their stories of honor, commitment, family and perhaps most importantly...what it means to be "from Southie."
The Honorable Raymond Flynn, former Mayor of Boston and Ambassador to the Holy See, is joined by other veterans of Southie to tell their stories.
C
Lastly,
give
you
thanks
for
this
great
country
of
ours,
it
was
founded
upon
the
dignity
of
human
life,
the
values
of
human
freedom.
May
we
who
are
recipients
of
the
fruits
of
the
sacrifices
made
by
our
soldiers
from
the
beginning
of
our
country,
never
take
for
granted.
All
that
you
have
given
to
our
country.
It.
B
D
To
South
Boston
South
Boston
is
one
of
the
oldest
and
most
historic
communities
in
all
of
America.
We
have
kept
proud
of
our
history
here
in
South
Boston
and
met
where
you
came
from.
We
were
born,
you
become
immersed
and
the
cherished
values,
traditions
and
principles
of
this.
This
extraordinary
extraordinary
town,
the
oldest.
E
F
G
Is
my
father
right
here
so
my
father
was
born
in
1897
in
Naples
Italy
and
then
he
came
after
he
served
in
the
military
he
came
to
this
country
in
1920
came
to
Boston.
First
then
he
had
to
go
to
New
York,
because
that's
where
his
sponsor
was
because
back
then
you
had
to
have
a
job
and
then
my
father
came
back
to
Boston.
He
became
a
citizen.
I
had
the
citizen
papers
too,
and
he
worked
for
Woolworth
company
for
47
years
when.
D
H
I
I
J
Know
we
were
like
broomsticks,
it
wasn't
a
pick
on
us
because
we
win,
we
never
had
anything.
We
were
all
the
same.
You
know
there
was
no.
Nobody
was
better
than
us
to
each
other.
We
dressed
the
same.
We
played
ball
together.
We've
got
along
terrific
together
because
because
that's
what
we
had
was
a
friendship
that
was
always
there
I'm.
K
D
Of
those
values
that
they
had
was
sense
of
loyalty,
loyalty
to
family,
to
religion,
to
faith
country,
but
also
loyalty
to
themselves
and
their
friends
were
enabled
of
different
communities
even
within
this
neighborhood.
This
would
be
these
young
men,
mostly,
that
would
leave
their
families,
leave
the
corners
and
go
off
and
fighting
war
halfway
around
the
world.
I.
L
K
B
N
B
N
P
Going
to
remember
our
sons,
our
dads
our
brothers,
our
friends,
and
not
how
they
died,
but
how
they
live.
Remember:
John
Calhoun,
as
an
artist
who
won
several
art
awards
from
the
Boston
Globe
received
the
Boston
Museum
of
Fine
Arts
Scholarship,
remember:
John's
on
selfishness
and
loyalty
to
his
friends.
Remember
his
courage.
One
of
his
friends
recall
John's
unselfishness
as
they
waited
to
deploy
to
Vietnam.
If
John
had
money,
his
friends
had
money,
we
remember
Paul
Sheehan,
depended
English
and
drove
a
delivery
truck
with
a
C
point.
P
Free
market
was
described
as
a
leader
who
consistently
put
himself
at
risk,
checking
on
his
men,
putting
their
safety
and
their
welfare
ahead
of
his
own.
Remember:
John
Joyce,
studying
hard
at
Latin
Nick,
Boston
State.
We
remember
Jim
O'toole,
building
three
forts
with
his
cousin
and
camping
in
the
Blue
Hills
with
his
friends,
remember,
bud,
Milan,
playing
hockey,
baseball
and
remember
dougie
III
start
work
and
his
charming.
The
bus
driver
on
the
tee
to
ride
for
free,
getting
ran
out
of
nickels
today.
P
Remember
how
each
one
of
these
young
men
and
all
the
others
remembered
on
this
monument
live
your
lives
and
touched
us
and
learn
the
way,
remember
their
service
during
humor,
their
friendship.
We
remember
how
much
we
miss
them
today.
We
remember
the
honorable
service
of
those
who
served
in
Vietnam
other
help
that
they
can
mature
today.
D
I'll
tell
you
what
it's
a
very
interesting
community,
very
interesting,
dynamic
in
its
history.
The
history,
of
course,
is
so
important
for
for
people
to
understand,
because
really
the
history
of
South
Boston
is
really
the
history
of
the
United
States.
It's
a
community
largely
of
poor
immigrant
people
that
came
from
different
parts
of
the
world.
They
settled
in
here.
Looking
for
open
opportunity,
work
raise
their
family,
develop
a
career,
and
you
see
it
today
in
many
respects.
D
M
Funniest
thing
is
I
know,
I
had
I
know
when
I
got
out
to
Texas.
Obviously
the
way
the
way
we
talk
likely
from
and
I
bet
off
from
salty,
and
they
could
understand
why
I
wouldn't
say
Boston
I'd,
say
self
is
always
say
in
a
book.
So
I
don't
happen
to
me
probably
25
times
like
all
right.
This
kid
in
second
platoon,
when
he's
from
he's
from
Boston
I,
think
he's
from
Southie
I'm
like
oh.
J
M
Had
like
Pat
said,
the
first
gold
medal
winner
from
the
United
States
is
from
salty
again
I
mean
just
look
at
the
people,
the
politicians,
the
famous
people
from
solving
and
realize
wow.
This
is
this-
is
one
zip
code
like
this
is
one
zip
code
and
all
these
people
have
come
from
here.
I
mean
it's
Medal
of
Honor
winners,
professional
athletes
again
also
here
the.
H
I
Know,
free
kids,
sharing
the
same
bedroom
when
we
moved
to
this
house
or
a
previous
house,
my
sister
and
I
both
got
our
own
bedroom.
We
were
the
two
oldest
in
the
family.
The
other
three
boys
had
to
share
and
we
thought
were
big,
but
I
will
tell
you
that
our
bedrooms
had
room
for
a
bed
and
a
bureau,
and
that
was.
G
H
O
M
Concerned
you
know
living
here
again
now
with
my
wife
and
well.
You
know
I'm
lucky
enough
to
be
back
in
my
grandpa's
old
house,
extremely
lucky,
because
again
we
I
couldn't
afford
it.
You
know
my
wife's,
a
teacher
I'm
in
the
military
we
make
a
decent
living.
I
can't
complain,
but
it's
just
so
expensive
here,
I
I'm
concerned
I'm
extremely
worried
that
the
preman
upbringing
that
I
had
here
and
my
father
mother
had
and
my
grandparents
had
that
my
son,
a
dog,
is
not
in
David
get
when.
G
Busing
started
people
started
to
move
out,
not
that
could
not
because
they
didn't
like
this
town
says
they
just
didn't-
want
to
have
the
kids
bus
to
another
school,
so
they
moved
most
of
them.
Belivet
I'll,
move
to
the
South
Shore
and
then
what
happens
is
later
on
people
start
to
sell
their
homes.
Developers
got
a
great
idea:
let's
turn
these
three
decades
into
condos.
G
So
the
good
thing
is
people
are
taking
better
care
of
their
property,
because
now
you
don't
have
a
landlord,
that's
not
an
absentee.
You
have
people
that
actually
own
the
building
and
they
keep
it
up
and
they
do
a
good
job.
The
bad
thing
is
there
are
no
families
here
anymore,
because
a
family
could
afford
to
spend
eight
hundred
thousand
dollars
on
the
two-bedroom
condo
and
every
condo
is
three
people
living
every
condo.
Each
condo
has
three
cars.
G
D
Are
many
families,
many
young
people
that
would
love
to
continue
to
live
in
South
Boston?
Unfortunately,
the
high
cost
of
housing?
Now
that
may
be
something
that
is
look
at
it
from
a
favorable
point
of
view,
from
an
economic
point
of
view,
from
the
business
point
of
view,
you
know
that
means
there's
stability
in
the
community.
That
means
that
the
housing
is
valuable.
D
On
the
other
hand,
we
want
to
make
sure
that
there's
housing
available
for
working-class
families
for
lifelong
residents
of
South
boss
and
his
mother
and
father
grandparents
might
have
lived
here,
but
they
also
want
to
be
part
of
the
community
as
well,
and
we
don't
want
to
out
price
them
out
of
the
community
that
they
have
such
an
identification
with,
and
that's
really
a
challenge.
I
mean
it's
a
good
challenge
that
we
have
it's
not
deterioration
and
everybody
wants
to
move
out.
I
mean
we
are
almost
a
victim
of
our
own
success.
D
L
N
I
B
I
Great
thing
about
that
was
the
community
that
I
felt
such
a
community
down
at
the
L.
You
could
set
a
goal
and
others
would
cheer
you
on
to
was
echo
a
lot
of
people
around
who
didn't
necessarily
have
any
benefit
by
helping
you
out,
but
they
were
always
trying
to
help
you
out
just
because
that's
what
people
do
in
a
community
when.
M
I
coach,
it's
all
volunteer,
but
again
it's
something
that
you
don't
even
think
twice
about.
One
ICO
talkie
I
mean
I
like
to
do
with
XP
on
the
house
during
the
winter,
but
you
know
I,
just
I,
think
of
it
as
I
have
something
I
can
possibly
give
give
the
kids
because
again
I.
That's
what
I
got
nobody.
I
Was
going
to
give
you
anything
you
had
to
work
hard
to
get
that
playing
time.
You
had
to
work
hard
to
make
yourself
better
and
I.
Remember
I
went
in
for
an
opera
when
I
was
15
years
old
and
my
coaches
came
in
and
brought
me
a
cut
from
the
Tribune
and
showed
me
that
I
was
one
of
the
top
ten
batters
in
the
league
and
I
still
remember
that
to
this
day,
showing
that
you
know
it's
a
fiftieth
pick
and
ended
up
being
one
of
the
top
ten
batters.
He.
M
Mean
the
best
part
of
celcius
everyone
walks
everywhere,
so
everyone
plays
every
sport
of
magical,
I
mean
I,
think
all
of
us.
Since
we
have
four
five
six.
You
know
it
was
soccer
boxing
marketing,
basketball,
baseball
and
the
parents.
It's
almost
three,
a
lot
of
it.
I
mean
we
walked
everywhere,
done
a
gym,
Columbia,
Park,
M,
Street
and
I.
Think
it
finally
found
out.
What's
what
you
were
the
best
in
probably
and
you
were
kind
of
11,
but
that's.
O
Where
you
need
all
your
friends
going
up
mostly,
you
know,
even
if
you
didn't
go
to
the
same
school
with
someone
you
played
hockey
with
them
or
you
played
baseball
with
them
and
it's
funny
how
solving
such
a
small
area.
But
if
you
didn't
play
sports,
anyone
knows
something.
On
the
other
side
say
I
know
we.
F
G
M
South
was
going
through
some
stuff
back
in
the
90s.
They
leave
the
rink
open
till
2:00
in
the
morning.
So,
instead
of
us
being
15
or
16
hanging
on
the
con
again
in
trouble,
we
were
up
skate.
You
know,
I
know
McDonough
Jim
used
to
be
open
on
Friday
night,
sometimes
for
midnight,
just
guys
playing
kids
playing
basketball,
I
think
the
best
thing
that
sports
didn't.
So
he
didn't
place
to
help
me
always
I
mean
you
just
you
never
quit.
They.
I
I
Time
I
want
to
place
the
cream
in
Kuppam
selfie,
there's
no
way
you
yelling
and
screaming
at
me.
Making
me
do
push-ups
or
sit-ups,
or
something
like
that.
It's
going
to
make
me
quit
and
keep
me
from
wanting
to
do
what
I've
always
wanted
to
do
in
my
life
and
that
was
to
be
in
the
military
and
fly
I
was
indiscriminate,
I.
Think.
N
Because
of
the
situation
that
the
kinda
clearly
movie
almost
a
day
and
a
half
and
at
that
time
with
a
lot
of
last
night,
which
eventually
led
to
the
last
my
jokes.
So
that's
why,
as
a
dictator,
I
had
a
photos
which
I
don't
mind
at
all:
I
love
Noto
so
much
there.
That
was
it,
but
I
came
back.
I
played
baseball,
playful
fun
play
basketball
and
it
allowed
me
very
good
a
long
time,
but.
D
I
R
G
B
L
H
H
O
D
D
The
values
that
we
learned
at
an
early
age
growing
up
in
South
Boston,
whether
we
learn
them,
may
be
a
combination
of
places
at
home,
certainly
in
our
church,
our
community
from
our
friends
family
in
in
that
loyalty
we
had
for
our
for
our
country,
patriotism,
it's
kind
of
interesting,
so
many
of
our
young
men
and
women
who
served
our
country,
you
know
not
only
did
that
nobly,
but
then
they
wanted
to
come
back
to
the
same
community
to
this
community
and
maintain
that
commitment
to
public
service.
They
turned
in
one
uniform
for
another.
D
L
D
Know
I'm
glad
we're
doing
this
because
people
I
I
travel
across
the
world
across
the
country
when
I
was
the
United
States,
ambassador
and
I
people
would
say
ray
you're
from
South
Boston.
Tell
me
what's
up
Boston,
like
you
know,
I
was
from
the
Army
with
somebody.
I
was
in
the
Navy
with
some
buddies.
I
was
just
amazed
with
some
of
the
stories,
and
you
know
how
much
they
respected
the
veterans
and
it
still
exists
today.
It.
A
Still
exists
today
and
it's
because
of
the
the
older
veterans,
the
World
War,
two
veterans,
the
Korean
veterans,
the
Vietnam
veterans.
They
showed
us
how
to
do
it.
They
showed
us
how
to
get
involved
in
South
Boston
how
to
get
involved
in
our
country
to
give
back,
making
sure
returning
veterans
in
their
families
are
always
treated
with
respect
and
dignity,
and
that's
an
important
lesson
for
all
returning
veterans,
it's
not
about
you
or
your
military
service.
D
A
D
J
Have
a
function
coming
up
in
the
summertime
we
want
to
do
it.
We
want
to
do
it
for
a
person
who
was
never
recognized,
neighbors
bought
locally.
Here's
a
co-chair
brothers
reward
committee
would
Eddie
Tolan
and
even
when
he
passed
away,
there
was
nothing
done
from
well
Cheryl
posis
not
going
to
get
him
we're
going
to
have
something
right
next
to
his
brothers.
Thank
you
over
here
and
I'll
have
something
over
here
for
the
committee
members
and
will
will
have
a
grand
time
we'll
do
it
up
right,
yeah
we're
not
going
to
forget
father.