Reflection from the Study of Ray Puglia

Reflection from the study of Ray Carmine Puglia

This was not an easy assignment, but fulfilling to say the least.  The discovery of belongings that were somewhat the same to what exists for my dad brought back childhood memories of no dad around during many years as my dad was shipped to Okinawa when he got rank advancements in the Marines.  Ray experienced a whole lot more hell than did my dad, as shown by the battle ribbons he earned.  Having served 4 tours in both Asiatic Pacific and Korean Conflict deserves a whole lot of respect alive or deceased.  There were a lot of the same items in the box that I can remember my dad coming home with as gifts for mom and us kids.  Where Ray did not have any children everything went towards Eva and then Liz.

            Taking noted is an art that I need to improve on when doing these types of assignments in the future.  It does help with doing the double-sided entry for evidence and conclusion.  It makes it a bit easier when trying to ascertain the conclusions.  Without the notes, we could not have made a complete analysis and come to a conclusion outside of the classroom environment. 

            The early research seemed to be trying to figure whom we were investigating. We still could have done a superb job researching Eva.  Not the same with Liz.

            The problems most students have are that the research sites are subscription based websites.  It costs money to really do hard research work when trying to verify the data.  So all we could research is based upon the primary sources without validating the information.  The primary sources become the only source, unless we use our instructor as a secondary source, which I did. 

            This was a fun and different type of English class assignment.  It causes one to think outside the box and use critical thinking when trying to figure out the answers.  Some things we will never know about Ray Puglia and the things we do have been noted.

            On a personal note, I was talking to my older sister and she agreed that most likely that my dad knew Ray in two ways; 1) as an NCO when he was at Camp Lejeune, 2) from my mom only using fresh block yeast when she baked.  She never used the dried yeast.  The bakery was where she got the yeast.  It is a small world.