how do we deal

[Alatariel]

thanks rain, yes he was awesome. taught me alot of things. lol how to duck dive when i was 9, taught me how to commando roll when i was 10 XD
taught me to type and alot about gardening and weeding. we played alot of memory games on the computer and board games. we took apart old computers and printers. we both enjoyed working in the workshop and painting. there was alot i did with him and i enjoyed every moment.

i just received an email with his Autobiography, reading it now. very interesting.

 

[rainkeltoia]

<3 When my great gram passed away, I found out so many things about her I never knew. Like she was one of the first female race car drivers in Maine, and when her husband passed I found out he was in the army in WW2 as a person who escorted wounded soldiers home, and had to make reports to families on soldiers KIA. Its amazing how much we learn about people, how fascinating their lives were.

 

[Alatariel]

wow i never knew how military our family was. seems like everyone in my grandfathers family was connected to the military

 

[lilfarmtruck]

What a wonderful heartwarming thread. Our memories are such a mixed bag of bitter sweet emotions, bringing on pleasure and pain at the same time. I learned my grandfather, who passed when I was 14, was a hobo, ran away from home as a young teenager and hopped freight trains for adventure. When I was a tiny child he would set in the floor cross legged in front of the tv, reading the news paper spread out on the floor in front of him. He would set me down on the paper and pull me around him. I thought that was the greatest thing in the world.