It all began in Buffalo between World War II and the Korean Conflict, as it was called, when the guys would meet up late at night in a diner for their brand of fellowship.
They were mostly high school graduates in their late teens and early twenties, the sons of immigrant families.
It didn't matter; there was little trace of that showing.
They didn't look or act alike, but they had a sense of who they were, sort of proud for some reason, without much to show for it.
--from the Intr.