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How God’s Guidance Can Affect an Unexpected Life

How God’s Guidance Can Affect an Unexpected Life

tonio rocciano

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Publishing Services Consortium, LLC (PSC)
Año de edición:
2021
Materia
Biografía: general
ISBN:
9781638815136
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Tonio Rocciano was just fifteen. Considered 'too young' and 'too small,' no one would hire him. So he robbed a bank to buy a bike. He was caught and sentenced to the state reformatory in Buena Vista in 1947.At seventeen, Tonio was conditionally released. As a Navy frogman, he participated in the Korean invasion at Incheon. Tonio would be discharged for striking an officer who had spat on Tonio.Once he was a civilian, Tonio fought with a man who had called him a nigger. Tonio was incarcerated once again in Buena Vista. An unfortunate event sent Tonio to the Colorado State Penitentiary in Canon City in a cell on death row.Unwind the story of an unexpected life, Tonio’s twists, tumbles, and intrigue will draw you into this fascinating account of a multiracial youth finding his way.

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