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Drunken Irishman

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16. He's right. My grandfather was raised by a single mother and he killed people with a gun...
Thu Aug 29, 2019, 09:55 PM
Aug 2019

My grandpa was raised by a single mother after his father left her while she was pregnant for another lady.

He hardly had any male influences in his life, as his mother, along with her sister and her mother, raised him.

He did shoot a gun, tho.

In Normandy, during the Normandy Invasion, as he stormed Utah Beach in World War II.

After the war, after retiring from the military shortly before Korea, he became a school teacher and spent the next 30 years teaching public school in Salt Lake City.

He married and had four girls.

He was a member of the NRA but, in the 90s, tore up his membership and turned in all his guns because he saw exactly what was happening in America.

Come in home Womack... backtoblue Aug 2019 #1
Yeah, me either. TomSlick Aug 2019 #4
Womack thenelm1 Aug 2019 #8
Not guilty. TomSlick Aug 2019 #9
Not it either backtoblue Aug 2019 #19
BTW backtoblue Aug 2019 #21
OK. Let me get this straight.... paleotn Aug 2019 #2
Whatever happened to praying in secret? lonely bird Aug 2019 #15
No, they don't. ChazInAz Aug 2019 #28
God out of schools was in the early 1960's. Somehow.............. MRDAWG Aug 2019 #3
Why aren't the fathers helping raise the kids. Where are the fathers? SharonAnn Aug 2019 #5
Too busy making more kids they don't support BigmanPigman Aug 2019 #23
So the real problem is deadbeat dads, abandoning their children. Interesting how SharonAnn Aug 2019 #32
It is so shocking they keep trying to spin it. mysteryowl Aug 2019 #6
Actually, they do. Strelnikov_ Aug 2019 #7
Seems Rebl2 Aug 2019 #10
And most of the homes the police Ahpook Aug 2019 #14
These Rs that keep sticking to the NRA talking points JDC Aug 2019 #11
Maybe, just maybe, mountain grammy Aug 2019 #12
Trump is throwing Alaska's Tongass National Forest under the bus. oasis Aug 2019 #13
Not just logging. Gas and oil. Traildogbob Aug 2019 #17
Womack is from Arkansas. sinkingfeeling Aug 2019 #24
Oops oasis Aug 2019 #25
He's right. My grandfather was raised by a single mother and he killed people with a gun... Drunken Irishman Aug 2019 #16
The PERFECT response........ MyOwnPeace Aug 2019 #18
Excellent!!! backtoblue Aug 2019 #20
Wow, I'm shocked he was booed in Rogers. That's his home turf. sinkingfeeling Aug 2019 #22
ugh Demovictory9 Aug 2019 #26
So, if Rep. Womack thinks single mothers are to blame, area51 Aug 2019 #27
How does he explain what was the problem with his own son? Judi Lynn Aug 2019 #29
"It's all some single mother's fault!" Zambero Aug 2019 #30
I was raised by only a mother.......guess I am another loser. (Sigh) virgogal Aug 2019 #31
Gosh...town halls used to be soooooo easy Bengus81 Aug 2019 #33
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