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(15,532 posts)Not sure anyone would call our family "lovely", but thanks. We were different to say the least.
My grandfather was proud of his socialism. One time in high school it was embarrassing to me. He used to stand on the corner in the town next to our little, rural town and hand out the socialist newspaper "The Weekly People" and he made us kids stamp his name and address on each one. One of our extremely conservative teachers had to turn it into an American History lesson all the while looking at my brother and I with a knowing glare because we had a distinctly unusual last name, so she knew he was related to us. Being a teenager and all I wanted to crawl under my desk. He was extremely anti-Vietnam war and I wasn't that interested in it yet, but he said, "You better be interested as it's your generation that's going to be dying." I'm 69 and yes, it was my generation that sacrificed the most lives in more ways than one.
He was quite quirky but prescient.