re: If you could go back and spend time with someone you lost

My dad. He left way too soon.
I know he would love his grandkids. :banghead:

Very sorry for your loss, I know that's been weighing heavily on you.

My Dad, just to tell him I did the best I could with Mom.

Responding to my own thread, I would like to have spent more time with my grandpaw(my mom's dad). Once I was able to drive I was always going to school, working and then hanging out with my friends. He loved baseball. He played with some of the major league guys during wwii. Took me to rangers games, Astros games, Saints games. his health declined as I was heading to slu in 95. When I graduated in 97 things really went south. He took us on trips via train when I was small to football hall of fame, baseball hall of fame and basketball hall of fame. Caught a few cardinals games and Cubs games. Guy was a cool dude. Caught mt1 and I looking thru playboys when I was 8 or 9. Didn't say a word to my grandmaw or mom. Really tried to find out more about his service during wwii. By the time I was interested he was already facing medical challenges and my grandmaw didn't know much. Tried to reach out to a few guys he served with thru reunions and no luck. He was in the US Navy. He was on the USS Mississippi and USS Fuller and also USS Ormsby. The last one I was not familiar with till I requested his records.

Paternal grandfather

My dad.

I miss him everyday.

Considering I wrote my dad off as dead three times in a three-month period back in 2010, I'd say I've been doing this for the past 5 years.

Sorry. Like I said I had a "moment of clarity".

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Paternal grandfather

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Same. Passed when I was 10. Never really got to know him. I mainly remember his guffaw of a laugh, and how he was cue-ball-bald (my dad still has a full head of hair at 55). He made golf clubs and I still have mine, tiny with a pink handle.

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Sorry. Like I said I had a "moment of clarity".

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no problem, man...I like the thread, just picked the wrong time to try to read it...

for me, it would be my grandmother...man, what I wouldn't give to have her back for just one more holiday so that I could go into her house and smell the smells of her food as she cooked the holiday meal...

was never able to meet my Aunt (who died at 4 years of age because of cancer), also never met my paternal grandfather.

I wish my uncle didn't die of cancer when I was around 10...

I would have loved to spend time with him (being a more mature person now)