A popular American police procedural television series “The Naked City” which ran from 1958 to 1963 ended each episode with the narrator intoning the iconic line: “There are eight million stories in the naked city. This has been one of them”. This book which covers the life and times of my early years growing up in Brooklyn, New York mimics that iconic line from that show and could be described as just one of the millions of stories about a kid growing up in Brooklyn just after the end of WWII among the last of the “Silent Generation” just before the group of kids know as the “Baby Boomers”. Lou Realmuto is a U.S Navy Vietnam Veteran. His professional career spanned over five decades working at Eastern Airlines, Nabisco Foods and Acosta Sales & Marketing a global full-service agency in the consumer goods industry where he retired as a Director of Finance. Married with two children and four grandchildren he now resides in Virginia. He holds an Associate’s Degree from Kingsborough Community College in Applied Science and a Bachelor of Arts degree from Fairleigh Dickinson University. Although Brooklyn, NY is where his story began, he has traveled extensively throughout the United States and abroad. Community minded he has led a small local not for profit group for over a dozen years supporting and raising awareness for The Fisher House Foundation which provides “comfort homes” for military and veteran families at no cost while a loved one is receiving treatment. $5.00 FROM EACH BOOK PURCHASED WILL BE DONATED TO FISHER HOUSE.