Recollections by Ann Nardi Kusklyk (daughter) as remembered by Joe & Rose Raguci :

Aunt Ann would tell us about her father’s parrot who would curse in Italian. They were so embarrassed when people came to visit.   She also remembers being so afraid of her father.  But her sister Rose wasn’t afraid. When he would turn his back, she would salute him with “heil-hitler”.  But he never understood that she was insulting him with this action calling him a tyrant.