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My dream then was to play baseball for the New York Yankees. I was on the Stuyvesant baseball team, but because of my working hours, my playing time was limited. During my time at public school I was quite the rascal, along with my best friend Louie. In high school I continued my antics, only without Louie, who went to a different school. At the University of Alabama my cray antics were somewhat moderated after I met and married my wife, Sylvia. While waiting to be drafted into the service I got a job with my wife's relatives' footwear wholesale company traveling to the "Hill" country of Tennessee. After being drafted I was sent to Fort Jackson for basic training. My next assignment was Fort McClellan, Alabama. If was great duty since I was about sixty miles form where we lived in Birmingham. It was great that is until I was sent to Korea for 18 months. When I was discharged, my first dream to become a corporate president by the time I was 35 years of age and after 8 eventful years with Thom McAn shoes company that goal was fulfilled. After that I became and Executive Vice President of a shoe import-export company. At the peak of that career I formed my own company, which became quite successful. Throughout that period I traveled the world having fun, interesting and exciting times. I continued to experience the ups and downs of a life well lived in Bill Morgenstein’s compelling new memoir, "The Crazy Life of a Kid from Brooklyn". While first reminiscing upon his childhood in Brooklyn during the depression, Morgenstein traces his life through times of war, peace, and everything in between. At times funny and heartbreaking, "The Crazy Life of a Kid in Brooklyn" details Morgenstein’s being drafted into the US Army, and his unusual adventures there. After discharge taking a executive training job with Thom McAn. then, moving up the ladder before becoming president of the Kitty Kelly shoes chain. Then joining an import-export company as Executive Vice President, before listening to his wife's sage advice to form his own company, which eventually results in a Fifty Five million dollar company. The, because of greed and over reach, his despair at losing it all to a scam, and much more. After closing the company he retires for wo weeks, answers a selling ad for a division of Montgomery Ward and rising to Vice President. After that company is sold he retires again, this time for 10 days. After an extraordinary sales record he is made an area vice president. He eventually helps form a Merchant Cash Advance company and acts as its Executive Vice President. During his army and working life and travels he has chance encounters with such historical figures as Sergeant York, Cordell Hull, Sid Gordon, Jomo Kenyatta, Vince Camuto, Ken Cole, Juan Peron, Jim Nabors, Garry Marshall, Donna Karan, David Rockefeller, Mohammed Ali, Nando Parrado, Regine, King Mohammend V, Andy Williams, Hoagy Carmichael, Sandy Koufax and many others providing amusing cultural touchstones that reveal a willingness to embrace everything life has to offer.Through all the successful, disappointing, dangerous, educational, and enlightening experiences that have shaped his life, Morgenstein remains philosophical as he explores the roles of ethics, honesty, and unfailing determination in shaping the human experience. Bill Morgenstein currently lives with his wife of 60+ years and spends the summers with his sons, their wives his grandchildren in the Northeast. Morgenstein still does both sales and consulting for successful business that are looking to expand by borrowing money for their business.
