How old is Grandpa?

Sep 20, 2014
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Rob Legg RL24 Chain O'Lakes
So here you go:

We do often remember the good-ole-days fondly, which says much about the human spirit that is able to forget the bad and focus on the good. As such, the description from the OP is really about an admired ideology, more than reality. We looked at was was good about those good-ole-days and am reminded to not forget what was good. Sure we had faults as well, we are all human.
My dad passed away last month due to covid at 91 years old. 6 months prior he took a 3000 miles trip to visit all of his kids. His visit to our place was rather intimate and he spoke in depth about the life he had lived. As a child he grew up poor. His dad was taken in as an orphin for forced child labor. My dad told how he was so poor, there was a period of time he lived in a chicken coop. He started work when he started high school to help put food on the table. With money he saved, he bought the rest of his family a house. Then went on to join the army, was in The Presidents Honor Guard. Escorted Queen Elisabeth when she visited the US. Turned down a contract to play for the Cleveland Browns (football was not what it is today). He returned back to the same job he had when he was in high school. Worked there 48 years. Raised a stable family, served in many areas in church. He lived conservative and retried well, always continuing to honor God in everything he did. You could say he really lived the ideological American dream, to start very poor, and yet live well. You could think about today what we would call childhood scars, yet it never really affected how he lived. The attitude about life was different back then and we could learn much from it today. It wasn't about "coping with your past" but rather what was right and how to live his future.