Alfred Capuzzo

What did you do in the months after the War ended?

I went to work back were I worked before the War at Sherman Paper Products.  After I worked there for awhile I went to school for refrigeration. However, I couldn’t get a job after that, because I had no experience.  Eventually, I got a job at New England Concrete and Pipe for a quarter an hour.  I was there for 11 years, then I took an exam in the Boston City Hall to be a custodian at the city schools. After a year I got called and worked for the City of Boston Schools for 18 years.

Tell me how you met your wife

We were kids together. Virginia and I grew up in the same neighborhood.  I just so happened to run into her after I got out of the service. We soon got married.  You are not going to believe this, but we have been married for 62 years. We have had quite a life together. Some ups and some downs, but we have survived.  In 1986, I retired and bought a home in New Port Ritchie in a gated community. We were there for twenty years. Then I started to lose my eyesight, so we came down here to the Amelia Island area and live with Chris, a good friend of mine.  Let me tell you a little about Chris.  One day when I was living in Boston I was working on my house and this little boy about 11 or 12 says, “Hey mister do you need any help?”  I said, “Yeah, okay.” Ever since then it seems like he has been around and after that day I couldn’t get rid of him. His father passed away and I guess that I was kind of a father to him. He and his family is who I live with now.  I have two sons, Larry and Bill, and nine grandchildren.   I also have five or six great-grandchildren.