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So i was thinking about my grandfather today...

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josh.
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and about what an amassing man he was he served to tours of duty as a tail gunner in a Lancaster bomber (most tail gunners are killed in the first week), during this time he earned the 1939-45 star, the air crew europe star, the defense medal, and a couple others that i cant work out the name of. after that he served in the air force for a few more years, then he retired in b.c. were in the space of 20 or some odd years he built around ten house's for his family of 6 kids. after doing that he retired in the interior of b.c. after living there for ten odd years, his wife of over 50 years passed away. then a couple years latter he was having heart problems, he went for surgery were they inserted a tube in one of his arteries to open it up, the operation went well, except they didn't sterilize the tube. this got infected and led to his untimely death.

so theirs his story (kinda he never really talked about the war), tell me about your grandparents story's


Aug 25 2008 4:18AM
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SKIDUBAIGUY
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My grandfather was an flying spitfires during ww 2 and got 11 kills, but then went missing somewhere over france during the battle of britain, they never did find him, My other grandfather drove buses in the army. He died about 2 years ago.
Aug 25 2008 4:26AM
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Tinga
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maternal grandfather for who i am named was a pastor that did all sorts of mission work and stood on the street corner singing church hymns with drunken bums at noon. died before i was born of colon cancer

fraternal grandfather this is where i got my middle name. well he grew up on a large chicken hatchery. one of the largest in the mn i think. well later on he made a computer program that would design a diet for chickens. like the most efficient thing i think. well he still gets to travel all over the country showing people how it works and such. he's been married to a wife that said yes to the proposal of "i suppose we should get married or something" haha 
Aug 25 2008 4:38AM
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XtRemE11
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my grandpa was one of the top like 3 people who designed the hiroshima bomb.
Aug 25 2008 4:41AM
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solitaryman
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My grandpa owned a fishing cannery, then once he was over that he began a Rock & Gem company.

He's now a millionaire.  He has a rolls royce (one of 75 in the world which i might get) :P

Yea so he's rich thats about it.

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My mom's dad was a sheet metal worker during world war 2 so he never got sent out cause he had to make bombs and shit.  When he was 83 he was the oldest man to go on the flying trapeze at club med
He also went up grouse mountain around 83 where he got worked by the rope tow.  At 83 he went to canadas wonderland and went on a ride with a 150+ foot drop into a loop and 2 spirals.

He was a pimp. died at 93.
Aug 25 2008 6:50AM
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VT_scratch
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my grandma made sandwiches and shiit for people in the army and my grandpa was in some telecommunication tower to talk to the planes in ww2?

ill try to find a picture some where i know i used one in a school project.
Aug 25 2008 9:07AM
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peyton
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my grandpa plays golf?
Aug 25 2008 9:11AM
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artfullydodged
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my grandparents were about as famous as book binders can be
Aug 25 2008 9:48AM
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Style+eeze
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My grandpa was a machine gunner in WWII, and he was the leader of his little group.  So, one day, they need to go up this big ass hill, but they don't know if there are any enemies on the top.  So they have to send one person up first.  My grandpa volunteers and he slowly reaches the top, and right as he gets to the top, a Nazi plane spots him and does a fly-by with it's machine guns.  My grandpa rolls up into a ball and is missed by these fat bullets by less than a foot.  He survived and now chills at home hella rich and smokes a pipe.

Oh, and he faked his age to say he was 18 to go into WWII when he was only 17.
Aug 25 2008 11:18AM
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meggles
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Well, my grandma on my mom's side is a hardass. She grew up with 5 siblings, and she was the oldest by quite a few years. When she was 20 her parents died in a car accident and she was responsible for taking care of brothers and sisters. I've got nothing but respect for her.

Aug 25 2008 11:33AM
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nickman
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Mr grandfather was a medic of some sort in ww2. After getting out of the army he moved back to his farm. He was always pretty quiet. Then he moved to a nearby house in a small town and left the farm to my uncle.
My other grandfather was a psychiatrist in new york. He and my grandmother had to move into a really nice old folks home a few years ago near my aunt. My grandmother is still enjoying living there despite him passing away.
Aug 25 2008 11:50AM
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Nikula
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my maternal grandparents
my grandfather lived in finland and was in army training as all finish men have to do i think, he was one of the dudes who shot the big turrent guns, sometime after his military stuff he met my grandmother, they got married then moved to canada. they moved to vancouver first i think and worked forever, saved all their money, but also sent alot of it back to family member in finland and helped many of them move to canada, at some point they bought some farm which is worth shitloads and also all the property around a lake up in the mountains, where they gave property to friends and familys where they could build cabins and sold of the rest. my grandparents are both alive, my grandpa survived cancer in the late 1990s. They are dope
Aug 25 2008 12:03PM
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720skiguy
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when mine was drafted into the army, the first day they were yelling at everybody like they do.

he stood up and said "i'm not used to people talking like this, it's not civil"

they made him a sargeant haha
Aug 25 2008 12:06PM
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Shpadoinkle
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Weird. My mom was a neighbor to one of those guys.

All my grandparents are dead. My grandparents on my dads side were evil and greedy, and my grandparents on my moms side died in the 70s.
Aug 25 2008 12:15PM
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anxju
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my great grandpa discovered many peking men and has a wikipedia page.  hes on chinese tv like every day, they have documenteries about him.  you can google him and hes really famous.  google Jia Lanpo

heres his wiki page

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jia_Lanpo
Aug 25 2008 12:29PM
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SARTRON
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ive never met either of my grandfathers but i do know that my dads father was in a concentration camp as a little boy, he was only caught a few weeks before the end of the war so luckily he didnt endure the worst of the camps
Aug 25 2008 12:34PM
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MAC.D
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my grandpa was in ww2 but i dont think he was overseas, just based in the pacific or something. but my grandpas cousin was the pilot of a b-24 liberator in checkolslavakia(i definitly spelled that wrong). he was flying a mission to bomb some german base and he was shot down. its kind of an amazing story. the gunners and tail gunner were all killed and the radio operator was injured, and the plane was on fire and spinning towards the ground. everyone bailed out while he tried to keep the plane steady and then at the last moment he jumped out and parachuted down and landed in some little checkloslovakian(again) village. the german police found him in a house and he was a pow until the end of the war. his brother was killed while he was in the prison camp and he didnt find out until he was liberated and got home. he just died earlyer this year

Aug 25 2008 12:51PM
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