I also accomplished all of the National Rifle Association’s. 22 caliber target rifles, I competed in many rifle shooting competitions through my high school years, winning numerous awards. When I entered high school, I was placed on the high school Varsity Rifle Team because of my prior experiences with shooting firearms. I attended and graduated from Erasmus Hall High School in Brooklyn, NY. All that time, I had a longing to live in the Western United States. There I learned to hunt small game and deer. Every chance I got, I would escape from city life to a friend’s home in the beautiful and scenic Catskill Mountains in upstate New York State. As a young boy growing up in an area called Flatbush in Brooklyn, I always yearned to be away from the city. I had to train them to call me Bob, instead of Robert. Although my name’s Robert LaRosa, I prefer to be called Bob. My mother, Blanche Fedorski- La Rosa, was born in East Orange, New Jersey. My father, James La Rosa, was born in Siracusa, Sicily Italy. I was born a “city boy” in Brooklyn, New York on March 12, 1940. Robert (Bob) La Rosa, Gunner 18th SOS, Phan Rang and Da Nang, 1970-71
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