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JTrainDavis said:
I miss my grandpas. One passed when I was overseas, the other passed this past fall. I don't know that I'll have better friends.
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i'm sorry for your losses. last week was been pure hell for me, emotionally i'm drained. i couldn't even stay in church last Sunday, just hard seeing my pap the way he is
 
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wildnkrazykat said:
i'm sorry for your losses. last week was been pure hell for me, emotionally i'm drained. i couldn't even stay in church last Sunday, just hard seeing my pap the way he is
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My grandpa Malcolm died from various cancers, he hung around a bit, then drank a glass of blackberry wine and went up to bed.

My grandpa Newell had Parkinson's. If i ever have that I'll suck on the business end of a .45
 
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Grandpa wore his suit to dinner
Nearly every day
No particular reason
He just dressed that way
Brown necktie and a matching vest
And both his wingtip shoes
He built a closet on our back porch
And put a penny in a burned out fuse.

Grandpa was a carpenter
He built houses stores and banks
Chain smoked Camel cigarettes
And hammered nails in planks
He was level on the level
And shaved even every door
And voted for Eisenhower
'Cause Lincoln won the war.

Well, he used to sing me
"Blood on the Saddle"
And rock me on his knee
And let me listen to radio
Before we got TV
Well, he'd drive to church on Sunday
And take me with him too!
Stained glass in every window
Hearing aids in every pew.

Grandpa was a carpenter
He built houses stores and banks
Chain smoked Camel cigarettes
And hammered nails in planks
He was level on the level
And shaved even every door
And voted for Eisenhower
'Cause Lincoln won the war.

Now my grandma was a teacher
Went to school in Bowling Green
Traded in a milking cow
For a Singer sewing machine
She called her husband "Mister"
And walked she real tall in pride
And used to buy me comic books
After grandpa died.

Grandpa was a carpenter
He built houses stores and banks
Chain smoked Camel cigarettes
And hammered nails in planks
He was level on the level
And shaved even every door
And voted for Eisenhower
'Cause Lincoln won the war.
 
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Volst53 said:
It's rough my grandpa died from a gun shot, 40 years later
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Wow. Both mine were WW2, humble as any.
Looking back I wish they'd shared more, they thought the public speakers were rear echelon types in vfw, maybe right, but none of them will get their deserved credit because of that.
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I'm really lucky to still have all of my grandparents. I wear my grandpa's ww2 dogtags under my shirt every day.
 
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JTrainDavis said:
Wow. Both mine were WW2, humble as any.
Looking back I wish they'd shared more, they thought the public speakers were rear echelon types in vfw, maybe right, but none of them will get their deserved credit because of that.
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Somethings are just hard to relive. They done their job and came home, and got on with their lives.
 
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pap's tried to tell some ww2 stories in the last year or so, but with his dementia and the strokes it's hard to decipher what happened from his hallucinations. either way, men like them are few and far between these days and we're losing them way too quickly.
 
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My grandpa on my Dad's side died when I was two. So, I never really knew him. My grandpa on my Mom's side lived in Dallas and we'd visit for a month every summer. He worked in the bomb factory in Oak Ridge during WW II. To his dying day would never tell anyone what his job was. Those folks were sworn to secrecy and he took it to his grave.
 
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Volst53 said:
Somethings are just hard to relive. They done their job and came home, and got on with their lives.
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My wifes aunts father in law. ( really) was in between Ww2 and Korea. He talks about how in 1945 they came home on Friday and were working in a plant on Monday.
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JTrainDavis said:
My wifes aunts father in law. ( really) was in between Ww2 and Korea. He talks about how in 1945 they came home on Friday and were working in a plant on Monday.
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That generation was tough as a marine Corp drill instructor, my generation including my self are a bunch of whining sorry saps!! (no offense to my generation peeps lol)
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Only time I saw my Dad's dad cry was watching Schindler's list. He was in Korea not WWII but said it made him remember the horrible shat people see/do in war. This is a man that didn't cry when he lost his arm in a car wreck in his 70's. Holds his steak down with his stump when he cuts it. Too few of them left.
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Mother nature sucks. Standing in a tunnel under Bristol Dragway. I want the roar of engines, not the patter of rain.
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