Ralph E. Moore Jr.By Ralph E. Moore Jr.Let me warn you. I was taught how to read and write by African-American nuns in West Baltimore. Those sisters insisted we know an adverb from an adjective and things like subject verb agreement and the parts of speech. Young Black men were dying at disproportionate levels to our numbers in the population (the total Black count 300,000 out of the total of everyone who served, 2,700,000). I have learned a lot from my wife, Dana, my children and my grandchildren at times.