Visible shudder
It’s interesting how many historic patterns of violence are executed in the name of cleanliness and conformity.
we were on grandpa’s lap at three months, called us riggoberto
Saw that picture.
Gramps offered babysitting duties to free up the folks that birthday party. No one expected him to die of a heart attack
three months later
Hope we appreciated him.
we did, he told us about family and the war
how he was a navy pilot, then an instructor, then the commander of an entire base in hawaii
talked about courting grandma, disarming and then kicking a would-be mugger off a los angeles city bus on their first date
I remember that story. Grandma said
“How could I not marry Bob?”
he was a wild man
shrapnel in his leg from being shot at in his tours over korea
never was actually shot down though, lucky for the rest of us
Yeah, all those bullets our ancestors dodged in order to allow us to be born to tell their stories, it’s humbling really.
