• Contents

• 2-20-1938 (PIECES)

• SYNOPSIS

• INTRODUCTION

• Intro Page 2

• Intro Page 3

• Intro Page 4

• Intro Page 5

• Intro Page 6

Future Pages:

• CHILDHOOD YEARS

• TEEN YEARS

• MILITARY SERVICE

• PHILADELPHIA

• JERSEY SHORE

• FLORIDA GOLD COAST

• CALIFORNIA

• 1970 TOY FAIR

• THE LODGE AT ANGLESEA

• DELAWARE

• ATLANTA

• WEST GEORGIA

• FAMILY FOUND

SYNOPSIS

This is about the life of Alexander John LeDoux.

• Born to a mother whose father,  his grandfather emigrated illegally from Sicily at age 16, and a father who was an Ex-Marine who fought in Nicaragua during the 12 year so-called “Banana War”.  Placed in a Irish Catholic foster home at age one along with his two-year-old sister. And was always told from earliest memory that mother was dead after parents divorced.

• Extremely restrictive childhood, he will relate some  memories of these years in flashbacks  throughout the manuscript.  His father removed them for about a year telling the foster family he couldn’t afford the twenty dollars a week, and moved them to his older brother’s home in Springfield, Massachusetts.  His older brother had four daughters and along with the extra two children to help raise, caused a lot of hardships and they were eventually returned to the foster family.

• He convinced his father and new wife to take custody back from foster family at age twelve, which caused his sister to resent him.  Always knew that his father an ex-marine was an alcoholic, but never realized how extreme his problem was.

• Both parents worked so supervision was lax and being a free spirit and his always nagging curiosity about his mother who he never knew, brought him to hang around in the Italian sections of Metro Boston trying to locate her or information about her family.  He grew exceptionally streetwise in his early teens. He was hustling pool in pool rooms and drinking in bars, where he made more money shooting pool, he was extremely good at handicapping and picking winners, both the dogs and ponies.  Local bookies had stops are worked in just about every bar.  They took the bets and paid off immediately after they got the results over the phone.  He made friends with a lot of mob-connected people who got him false identification that showed that he was an apprentice jockey, this identification and with his contacts in many mob-connected nightclubs along with his big spending and tipping had every one fooled.  No one ever realized he wasn’t even sixteen years old.  He learned the ins-and-outs of the bar and nightclub business from the owners or front men and even convinced one mob-connected owner in letting him learn to mix drinks in his service bar.

• Was always popular in school, teachers knew his creative potential but didn’t know how to cope with his behavior.  He is ADD (Attention Deficit Disordered).  Quit school before he was to graduate because he was bored.  Never picked up his diploma even though he was told he could have passed every test and to at least get his GED which he refused to do,  it never was an issue in his life. 

• His sister left home at age 18 and never looked back.

• He joined the army at the age of 17 in 1955.  He and all his neighborhood buddies went to the army recruiting office to sign up with the 10^th Infantry Division, which was being relocated from Fort Riley Kansas, to Germany.  His buddies couldn’t pass the mental exam and was rejected.  It was to late for him he had already taken the oath. He left home a few weeks later in March of 1955 and took his basic training at Fort Dix in New Jersey.  Because he was streetwise he conned his supervising cadre an ex-airborne corporal who lived in Connecticut to cover for him and that he would go home and get his automobile and leave it outside the post. He would take the Corporal home to Connecticut every weekend, and also convinced the corporal to let two more buddies who lived along the way to go with them.  He charged them and that is what paid his expenses for the trip. He was home every weekend throughout the sixteen weeks except for the weekends that couldn’t be covered by the corporal.  He was then assigned to Aberdeen Proving Grounds in Aberdeen Maryland, to be trained as a track and wheel vehicle mechanic, which he hated because he didn’t like getting his himself dirty, and would rather use his brains rather than do physical work.  He was always in and out of trouble in his military service.  The military knew he had born leadership potential and a near genius mind, but that he couldn’t tolerate the military “Chicken Shit”. He went AWOL for thirty days while taking training and worked at Narragansett Racetrack until he inadvertently got caught riding with a groom from the track, a trooper pulled them over for speeding and they found out he was AWOL.  He spent 30 days in the brig in Fort Devens where he conned the guards into an easy job collecting trash instead of cleaning out grease traps at the mess halls.  Stationed next at Fort Benning Georgia with the 3^rd Infantry Division.  Got orders a few months later to pull duty in Kaiserslautern, Germany.  Had a physical fight with his father the night before leaving for Germany. His father never really forgave him and they didn’t speak or communicate until he returned from Europe in 1958. He had always kept in touch with his stepmother and she was the one that told his father that he was back.  He had never intended to go home again, he was going to start life from scratch somewhere else.  His father was waiting for him at Fort Dix when he was released and asked him to come home.  This lasted about three months.

• He walked out the door one morning and joined a magazine selling crew that was traveling around the states and ended leaving them in Philadelphia, the life on this crew would make a novel in itself.  He looked up an old army buddy from Germany and found out that he was a rookie cop in Philly.  They spent the night drinking and the next day ended up tending bar for his buddies uncle, at his uncle’s private club, located in the 13^th and Locust St nightclub strip area.  He was only twenty years old at the time. His true-life experiences would boggle the mind of naïve people and read like a work of fiction to most.

• His life story will be told in flash backs picking up from where he is at the age of 63 after receiving the most incredible news.
  
  Continued: See INTRODUCTION