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Post by ishmael on Mar 17, 2024 5:41:48 GMT -5
Feeling a bit nostalgic this morning. My Aunt Midge passed away last night. We weren't particularly close and my Uncle Dick passed away 40 years ago or more.
She was however, the last member of that generation across all of our families and all of our spouses families. Our last direct connection with WW2 is my 81 year old brother. Even his wife was born a week after VJ Day.
Just makes me ponder so many of the events that generation saw.
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Post by up2 on Mar 17, 2024 8:27:36 GMT -5
Sorry to hear the news of your Aunt Midge's passing. Yesterday would have been my father-in-law's 105th birthday. He fought in the Battle of the Bulge under Patton with the combat engineers, building pontoon bridges. He met up with his brother a few months later when he caught wind his unit nearby. He passed a little over a decade ago, but we still have some cake and share memories of his life each year on his birthday. He was from an era of the strong, silent type of man. While it's easy to say we've all become weak and whiny, I've several nephews who serve and carry on with their lives and quickly dispel that notion. Perhaps we've just gotten grumpier with old age, though I will admit the lives we knew and were familiar with as children are very much in the past.
I realize we're all getting old, but you know what? That's the plan - so stick with it.
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