wahine
Practically Family
- Messages
- 535
- Location
- Lower Saxony, Germany
In the war, my grandpa was sent home on a leave to visit his sick baby son. This way, he averted Russian captivity and survived.
He got home just in time to witness his son die. My grandma always told this sad story, saying it was some kind of blessing in disguise that the loss of her child saved her husband.
She also says "the stork got too close to her" on that home leave meaning that she received her next baby right away. In the end, she had five children, eleven grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.
So far. She's still alive and kickin at 95.
She had kept several letters that her husband had written to her from the war; I felt very honored that she allowed me to read them. That was a moving experience, seeing a side of my grandfather that I hadn't know at all.
He got home just in time to witness his son die. My grandma always told this sad story, saying it was some kind of blessing in disguise that the loss of her child saved her husband.
She also says "the stork got too close to her" on that home leave meaning that she received her next baby right away. In the end, she had five children, eleven grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.
So far. She's still alive and kickin at 95.
She had kept several letters that her husband had written to her from the war; I felt very honored that she allowed me to read them. That was a moving experience, seeing a side of my grandfather that I hadn't know at all.