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912gdm

(959 posts)
6. Oh absolutely.
Fri Dec 7, 2018, 10:31 PM
Dec 2018

The last time I saw her I was in my early teens and wasn't interested in history.

My parents would send me up to my grandma's every summer. I grew up in South Florida and grandma and the rest of the family was in Ohio. So a couple of times we would visit aunt Emmy. She was a cool old bird.

My mom absolutely loved her, she was adopted and Emmy would always make over her. I just think its so amazing she was an adult when WW1 started, lived, then WW2 and saw nephews lost, then dealing with the Cold War and jet travel, long distance phone, and finally cable tv.

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I hope they have made videos of the survivors telling their stories, Liberty Belle Dec 2018 #1
"Historians and everyday Americans worry that we may start to lose a human connection with the WhiskeyGrinder Dec 2018 #2
++++100 misanthrope Dec 2018 #16
Something is always lost PoindexterOglethorpe Dec 2018 #3
your post made me think of my great-great-aunt 912gdm Dec 2018 #4
And I bet if you're like me, PoindexterOglethorpe Dec 2018 #5
Oh absolutely. 912gdm Dec 2018 #6
What a lovely story. PoindexterOglethorpe Dec 2018 #7
awesome 912gdm Dec 2018 #19
My grandmother was born the year the Wright Brothers first flew.... lastlib Dec 2018 #9
WOW!!!! misanthrope Dec 2018 #17
We have all kinds of recordings, but today marybourg Dec 2018 #10
Oh, dear lord! PoindexterOglethorpe Dec 2018 #11
My dad was a Pearl Harbor survivor. lapucelle Dec 2018 #8
I salute your Dad Stinky The Clown Dec 2018 #14
And my husband is a 9/11 survivor. lapucelle Dec 2018 #18
Very sad that the past is startiing retreat. Liberal In Texas Dec 2018 #12
Sad. The very idea of that made me feel very sad. Stinky The Clown Dec 2018 #13
This is so sad Raine Dec 2018 #15
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