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Purple **^*Sparkly*^** Diamond

Purple **^*Sparkly*^** Diamond Report 30 Dec 2014 07:40

Oh Brenda, aren't our memories good? My Dad would have been 104, born in September 1910. I was only thinking yesterday that he would have been a little lad coming up to 4 when war began and his daddy went away. My Grandmother had to cope with all her children while Grandfather went to war, he came back with shrapnel in his head which bothered him all the rest of his life, till it finally killed him in 1941 when it moved, apparently he was screaming in agony at the end, poor man. By then my own father was away fighting in World War 2.

Must have been awful to lose your Dad as you were talking with him, Brenda.

Lizx

BrendafromWales

BrendafromWales Report 30 Dec 2014 06:28

Can't believe that my dad would have been 109 today....where have all the years gone?
It's almost 35years ago since he died whilst I was talking to him,and still miss him,especially at this time of the year when we always got a round wooden box of Turkish delight for him cos he loved it.
He always went out of the back door with a lump of coal and a mince pie on New Year's Eve and came in at the front as New Year arrived.
Funny how traditions were in those days and how things have changed.
We are looking back a few hundred years doing our genealogy but when I think my own father was born at the beginning of the 20th century,makes me realize how old I am!!