Editing Chuck Norris (section)

==Early life==
Norris was born in [[Ryan, Oklahoma]], on March 10, 1940,<ref name="Secret">{{cite book |last1=Norris |first1=Chuck |last2=Hyams |first2=Joe |title=The Secret of Inner Strength: My Story |edition=1st |year=1988 |publisher=Little, Brown and Co. |location=Boston |isbn=0-316-61191-3 |page=[https://archive.org/details/secretofinnerstr00norr/page/6 6] |chapter=1 |chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/secretofinnerstr00norr/page/6 }}</ref> to Wilma (née Scarberry, 1921–2024) and Ray Dee Norris, who was a [[World War II]] [[United States Army|Army soldier]],<ref name=AgainstNorrisBio/> mechanic, bus driver, and a truck driver. His mother was of [[Irish Americans|Irish]] descent and his father of [[Cherokee descent]].<ref name=AgainstNorrisBio/><ref name="ADwCN">{{cite news |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F0CE0DE103CF931A25756C0A965958260 |title=At Dinner with: Chuck Norris |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |date=May 12, 1993 |first=Ira |last=Berkow |access-date=February 15, 2017 |archive-date=May 26, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210526210415/https://www.nytimes.com/1993/05/12/garden/at-dinner-with-chuck-norris-when-that-97-pound-weakling-grows-up.html |url-status=live|quote="Mr. Norris also grew up poor, with an alcoholic father, a Cherokee Indian, who was gone from home much of the time, and he and his brother Aaron, who directed "Sidekicks," and a third brother, Wieland, were raised for the most part by their Irish mother."}}</ref> Norris was named after Carlos Berry, his father's [[Minister (Christianity)|minister]].<ref name=AgainstNorrisBio>{{cite book |title=Against All Odds: My Story |last=Norris |first=Chuck |author2=Ken Abraham |publisher=[[Broadman & Holman Publishers]] |year=2004 |isbn=0-8054-3161-6}}</ref> He was the oldest of three brothers, the younger two being Wieland and [[Aaron Norris|Aaron]]. Wieland Norris informed his eldest sibling he would not reach his 27th birthday; this prediction came true in 1970 when he was killed in the Vietnam War. When Norris was 16 years old, his parents divorced,<ref name="CNSSP">{{cite news |title=Chuck Norris – Strong, Silent, Popular |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |date=September 1, 1985}}</ref> and he later relocated to [[Prairie Village, Kansas]] and then to [[Torrance, California]] with his mother and brothers.<ref name="ADwCN"/>

Norris has described his childhood as downbeat. He was nonathletic, shy, and scholastically mediocre.<ref>{{cite news |title=Chuck Norris Fights to Be a Better Actor in 'Hero and the Terror' Role |newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]] |date=September 2, 1988 |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-09-02-li-2090-story.html |access-date=February 20, 2020 |archive-date=August 23, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160823190008/http://articles.latimes.com/1988-09-02/news/li-2090_1_chuck-norris |url-status=live }}</ref> His father, Ray, worked intermittently as an automobile mechanic, and went on drinking binges that lasted for months at a time. Embarrassed by his father's behavior and the family's financial plight, Norris developed a debilitating introversion that lasted for his entire childhood.<ref>{{cite web |title=Breaking the Silence: People.com |url=http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20098746,00.html |website=www.people.com |access-date=December 11, 2015 |archive-date=August 26, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160826001219/http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20098746,00.html |url-status=live }}</ref>