I just have to say: I love my Grandmother (a lifelong Democrat) [View all]
I posted another thread about her a few days ago.
She's 94. Born in 1923.
Her family lost everything in the stock market crash of 1929.
Got married right out of high school, then WW2 broke out. Her husband (my grandfather) enlisted in the navy and was stationed in Pearl Harbor for the duration of the war. My grandmother gave birth to my dad while he was serving in Hawaii.
She was widowed at 50 when her husband died of a sudden, massive heart attack. He worked for a company with no pension, no benefits, nothing.
She went back to work for another 25 years. Retired at 75. Still no pension, just living on social security and the benefits she gets for being a WW2 vet widow.
Today, I was helping her with errands. One of them?
She had me write a check for her (she's now blind) for $50 for our local food bank.
Might not sound like much, but for someone like her, that's a fortune. I thought she was going to tell me $10 or something. $50. That's like her entire food budget for two weeks or more.
She said she felt horrible, because she hadn't donated in a while.
I just so admire her generous heart, after all the hardship she's been through in her life.
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