By Timothy Shannon
Growing up in Buffalo within the period of robber barons and anarchists, Jamie Reddy joins the Marines to flee the catch of poverty on Buffalo’s waterfront. He sees responsibility throughout the Banana Wars within the Caribbean, and is going directly to struggle at Belleau wooden within the nice struggle. Upon his go back from France, he unearths a state pain the post-war pangs of disenchanted veterans within the period of prohibition. Rum working, gang wars and the good melancholy paintings opposed to him and his family members.
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