THE EXTRAORDINARY LIFE OF AN ORDINARY MAN

About the Book

About the Author

This is the true story of Paul A. Leiter, born to Patricia Leiter on February 25, 1946. My real dad was killed in a fire and explosion. I was born in a military family. My grandfather was a staff sergeant in the army, air force. He was a mechanic and worked on the planes. He was in World War II and really liked what he was doing for his country. My aunt Millie was a captain with the nurse corp. during the second ward. I am getting carried away here. I was born at Citizen NS General Hospital in New Kensington, Pennsylvania. My grandfather was born in Belgium, and my grandmother Rose was born in Poland. My mother has a sister by the name of Gloria, and I was very close to her. Mom and Aunt Gloria and I would go roller skating and ice skating together. I was always going places with Elmer my granddad. Mom and I lived with her parents for about four years. Mom met a guy by the name of Thomas J. Ramsden, and they got married just so I would have a real last name. Tom was in the navy and his brother Jim and George were also in the navy. My uncle Frank was a marine. Tom and Dad were in the World War I and was mustard-gassed. Uncle Frank went out of his head from the war, but as time went by, he got cured. Tom came from a large family. He was the fourth son and had four sisters.