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PatB
I'm sorry to read that and think about the pain your mum suffered as his wife and you his daughter. War does terrible things for people though so perhaps he suffered in his own private way,
posted by
WileyJohn
on December 28, 2012 at 5:54 PM
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Sounds to me as though she always loved him and never considered that you
saw him different to her. Maybe you are right. Who knows what stopped his laugh, took the wickedly impossible to resist twinkle from his eyes.
posted by
Kabu
on December 28, 2012 at 4:30 PM
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Re: CCT - the effects of war...
At some point my father - who was a gunner on an aircraft carrier early on, but studied weaponry - was loaned to the army. He and others worked to dismantle buzz bombs captured from the Germans - apparently they'd been lobbing on Britain from the coast of France . I had always thought they were bombs dropped from airplanes, but according to Wikipedia, they're precursors to cruise missiles. It was when one of them went off and injured him. Now that I know what they were, I realize it's probably a miracle he wasn't killed on the spot. He spent 3 years recuperating in a VA hospital in Boston.
posted by
Pat_B
on December 28, 2012 at 12:42 PM
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When one sees the trauma war inflicts on personal. I remember men from the first War, but of course that generation did not live as long. They were permanently dazed Shell Shock. So one can imagine the fear as one saw a plane swoop to destroy and the will to keep firing right into the jaws of death. Perhaps reality was never the same again Pat.
posted by
C_C_T
on December 28, 2012 at 10:47 AM
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Pat
There always is more to it, isn't there? Especially when it comes to people, LOL...And through your writing you might come to know your Dad better than you ever did in life, maybe achieving a kind of emotional rapprochement...
posted by
Nautikos
on December 28, 2012 at 7:17 AM
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Maybe by the time you reach the 7th Dimension
they will both be there waiting for you.
I have a theory that when we leave these bodies, finally, we wake up, larger and with more understanding of who we were, and what we did, and why. From that vantage, we see the bigger picture, and that includes how we affected others with our actions and words.
posted by
Ciel
on December 28, 2012 at 7:03 AM
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