Grandson Asking ?s
Cameron my oldest grandson at 15 is my closest grandkid. We live 30 minuets from each other and spend a lot of time together. At least 20 hours a week when school is out. Since the virus we spend every Mon, Wed and Fri together.
He knows and remembers his grandad and loves him to death but he asked me about his great grandad Friday and i told him i would talk to him Monday about it.
His great grand dad was an evil piece of crap and that was me being really nice. If i told the truth i would be banned. He was a highly highly decorated WW2 veteran. I do not remember all his medals that he received but there was some stars more than one and 3 purple hearts. He was a great soldier but as a parent or spouse he was a miserable piece of trash. He was at Normandy and some other wars.
He had 8 to10 kids 2 who died at birth or under a year old. Some people count them and some do not. My Dad was the oldest of all the kids and he would take most of the beatings for his brothers or sisters and his Mom.
My Dad would barely pass his grade every year because from around age 12 until he left for Vietnam he would work on a farm for someone and when he came home at night his sisters would teach him his school lessons. On a good week he might go to school 4 times and that would be if the weather was bad or winter.
His Dad was a car/tractor mechanic but was a stone cold drunk who beat his kids and his wife daily. Somewhere around 15 or 16 my Dad was 6 ft 3 and about 225 pounds and was finally big enough to stand up to his Dad about beating his family. After that he stayed at his girlfriends house half of the time and never came home.
I do not know if he was evil or if what he saw made him evil but either way he was a nasty person. I think i will tell him he was a war hero and a hateful man and thats it.
He died when i was 12 so i do not know a lot about him except what i remember.
He knows and remembers his grandad and loves him to death but he asked me about his great grandad Friday and i told him i would talk to him Monday about it.
His great grand dad was an evil piece of crap and that was me being really nice. If i told the truth i would be banned. He was a highly highly decorated WW2 veteran. I do not remember all his medals that he received but there was some stars more than one and 3 purple hearts. He was a great soldier but as a parent or spouse he was a miserable piece of trash. He was at Normandy and some other wars.
He had 8 to10 kids 2 who died at birth or under a year old. Some people count them and some do not. My Dad was the oldest of all the kids and he would take most of the beatings for his brothers or sisters and his Mom.
My Dad would barely pass his grade every year because from around age 12 until he left for Vietnam he would work on a farm for someone and when he came home at night his sisters would teach him his school lessons. On a good week he might go to school 4 times and that would be if the weather was bad or winter.
His Dad was a car/tractor mechanic but was a stone cold drunk who beat his kids and his wife daily. Somewhere around 15 or 16 my Dad was 6 ft 3 and about 225 pounds and was finally big enough to stand up to his Dad about beating his family. After that he stayed at his girlfriends house half of the time and never came home.
I do not know if he was evil or if what he saw made him evil but either way he was a nasty person. I think i will tell him he was a war hero and a hateful man and thats it.
He died when i was 12 so i do not know a lot about him except what i remember.
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I knew my grandfather (dads side ) a little just enough to say I did meet him and talk some very little but by then he was just a old man content to live a meager life .
I do know he was a WWI vet and loved to drink and the way it sounds drinking came first before the family , I do not know if he was always like that but the impression I got he was
I am sure he beat my dad as well that"s just how things were , my dad had one brother who died very young and had eight sisters .
skip ahead to my point over my dads life I ask many times about his grandfather every time he would just say he was a mean man and that's all I ever got as response, even when dad had a short time to live ( we knew cancer was taking him ) he would talk about old friends and family but always the same about his grand father "he was just a mean man "not one word more . I think about that often what he did or was like to have have my dad never say one word about him , I wish he would have said something about why but I gave up and even now think about what may have happened .
this is JMHO your grandson is 15 I would tell him the truth enough so he would know about him his good and bad side
its all part of his history .
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Wow that is better than i could have said it. Everything i know about my grandfather came from my personal memory or from others. My Dad would never talk about him so i never asked. My Dad never ever said anything bad about anyone. If someone was a bad person i would not be allowed to play at their house. I did not understand why i could not play there just that i better not be caught there. Later when i was grown i understood. 0 -
I never knew my grandparents. All dead before I was born. This conversation reminds me that my parents really never spoke about their parents and now it has me wondering after hearing your stories. My grandparents were immigrants from Norway and England. Farmers and miners respectively. 0 -
Just be honest......sounds like the man had demons. I had a grandfather that wasn't so great as a husband or father, but was in WWII. He died when I was 2. My dad died when I was 12 and I never heard my father speak ill toward him. My aunts have been forthcoming as I have grown older. Like I said......he wasn't a great guy.....but he is part of the family. Knowing the truth is better than not knowing. 0
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