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Originally Posted by pwd72s
That's the other thing about being an old timer...you have the experience and maturity to know more than a few thing. But the younger set doesn't want to hear about it.
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I listen.
My step mothers dad is 85. He stormed the beach at Normandy. He got blown up by a landmine and sent home. He spent 50 years raising his family, was elected mayor of his town, taught in the public schools.
Today, he's still a ski racer! And this year he got one of the first deer at deer camp.
I listen to him more than his own kids.
The man has lived a life. I listen.
His description of allied bombs dropping on the Germans.....amazing. He said the earth would literally roll like an earthquake as the shockwaves rolled past them. He said it would go on for days, and that they would pray for the Germans because they knew the devastation that was being laid on them.