But Ciattarelli, the Republican nominee for Governor of the State of New Jersey, standing on a stage across the street from the statue of Basilone, a Marine hero killed in the Pacific, near the home where Ciattarelli lived as a child, beside the river he swam in and the canal he skated on, insisted his New Jersey dream does not only reside in the past. The world Ciattarelli came up in, of conservative families who insisted on Sunday dinners, who did whatever the hell it took to keep their children fed and clothed, weathered the hardships, worked the double shifts at the bar, as his parents did, literally manned a ditch, as his union pipefitter father did, or fiercely, proudly became the first person to get a high school equivalency, as his mother did, faces forces that appear too daunting to contend with now.
On its way it passes the statue of a man with a machine gun belt over his shoulder, and tomorrow Jack Ciattarelli hopes to show some of that fighting pride, which is why he held his last rally here in the blue collar town where he grew up, also home to Congressional Medal of Honor winner John Basilone.
RARITAN – The river of the same name runs through here on its way to emptying east in the bay.
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