[svandamme]

i never had to ask my grandfather to talk , he told stories
some of them were fun, some were not as fun
we also noticed that some things, he didn't talk about , they were there, we could tell, but he wouldn't talk...

we could also tell that the war never left him , he hadn't seen big battles or attrocities, but he was a forced laborour after he was a POW ( POW's of occopied territories were released after some time ) and in his later life, he seemed very prudent and dilligent about not wasting any money or resources , he had his little diy shack where he would make things out of nothing... creative recycling so to speak....

grand pa went last tuesday at 86... i wasn't in touch with the family in the last 3 years and that's a big regret of mine.. i was to late for some final stories... he was unconscience and had received last rights by the time i got back...

i know one thing, most of his life, he was still worried over things he endured in WW2, and that to me is enough to be a pascifist and never accept that war is a solution to anything whatsoever...