Brooklyn Born Author:Richard Carroll Growing up in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. The great people I hung out with, and the gang I ran. My skimpy education in PS 126, or no education whatsoever but the streets. Some of the stupid fights I got into that were unavoidable in that era. Some of my great successful love stories. Very few failures, but I lie a lot! My four years in the United Stat... more »es Navy as a medical corpsman. The unimaginable struggle of growing up dirt poor in a large Irish family and having a lot of crippling diseases as a young man. Difficulty in learning how to talk because of slurred speech due to my having had St. Vidas Dance and Scarlet Fever at the same time. A lot of near-death misses, and a long-term hospitalization in the Navy. Struggling to improve my education and make something of my life.« less