Mario Liberatore grew up in East Boston and served as a technical sergeant in the US Army from 1942 to 1946, specializing in radio communications. After the war, he worked for thir...view moreMario Liberatore grew up in East Boston and served as a technical sergeant in the US Army from 1942 to 1946, specializing in radio communications. After the war, he worked for thirty-two years on advanced technologies at Air Force Cambridge Research Labs (AFCRL) at Hansom Air Force Base in Lexington, Massachusetts. He has been married for more than sixty-seven years to the woman he writes of here and has a family of three children, seven grandchildren, and eight great-grandchildren.view less