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Questions you'd wished you asked your father
Posted on 7/30/20 at 12:30 pm
Posted on 7/30/20 at 12:30 pm
Since I'm tired of the Political Board right now and switching to YouTube LSU telecasts...
Lately, I've been thinking about the questions I wish I could have discussed with my father about WW2 and his participation...
He had energy on the subject let me tell you, but he really didn't talk too much about it...
One memory that really hits me is the two of us climbing to the top of the Koln (colonge) Cathedrial...he was bound and determined and virtually double-timed up to the top, leaving my mother behind...he had driven through there in April 1945 by my best reconstruction of events, he did show me the only street that was open through the city...
But the unasked questions:
You delivered a trainload of Nazis to Dachau when the Army used it as a holding area for them, other than the best looking redhead you ever saw, what was it like?
You were in Nurenburg in 1946, did you have to pull guard for any war criminals? Did you have to witness any executions?
What in your experiences turned you against organized religion?
Just wondering if any of y'all with WW2 veteran parents finally got the wisdom to ask questions of this sort, but didn't put the pieces together until they were gone...
Lately, I've been thinking about the questions I wish I could have discussed with my father about WW2 and his participation...
He had energy on the subject let me tell you, but he really didn't talk too much about it...
One memory that really hits me is the two of us climbing to the top of the Koln (colonge) Cathedrial...he was bound and determined and virtually double-timed up to the top, leaving my mother behind...he had driven through there in April 1945 by my best reconstruction of events, he did show me the only street that was open through the city...
But the unasked questions:
You delivered a trainload of Nazis to Dachau when the Army used it as a holding area for them, other than the best looking redhead you ever saw, what was it like?
You were in Nurenburg in 1946, did you have to pull guard for any war criminals? Did you have to witness any executions?
What in your experiences turned you against organized religion?
Just wondering if any of y'all with WW2 veteran parents finally got the wisdom to ask questions of this sort, but didn't put the pieces together until they were gone...
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Posted on 7/30/20 at 12:33 pm to vl100butch
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Questions you'd wished you asked your father
why did you cheat on my mom and then your wife?
Posted on 7/30/20 at 12:34 pm to vl100butch
Grandpa served in France in ww2. Never got to talk to him about it as I was too young to think much of it. He never spoke about it. But he did for the rest of his life take a crap by getting In catchers stance on top of the toilet seat.
Posted on 7/30/20 at 12:36 pm to vl100butch
I’d ask if he sat next to David Duke at lunch throughout high school.
Posted on 7/30/20 at 12:36 pm to vl100butch
Where did you hide the money?
Posted on 7/30/20 at 12:39 pm to vl100butch
Did you ever let mom shite on your chest?
This post was edited on 7/30/20 at 1:25 pm
Posted on 7/30/20 at 12:41 pm to vl100butch
Have I given you that moment where you said it was all worth it, and if not how do I do that?
Posted on 7/30/20 at 12:44 pm to vl100butch
quote:
Questions you'd wished you asked your father
Would you mind repeating all those stories you told me when I was young and too stupid to pay attention?
Posted on 7/30/20 at 12:51 pm to vl100butch
I meant to ask you how to fix that car
I always meant to ask you about the war
And what you saw across a bridge too far
Did it leave a scar
Or how you navigated wings of fire and steel
Up where heaven had no more secrets to conceal
And still you found the ground beneath your wheels
How did it feel
Bang the drum slowly play the pipe lowly
To dust be returning from dust we begin
Bang the drum slowly I'll speak of things holy
Above and below me world without end
I meant to ask you how when everything seemed lost
And your fate was in a game of dice they tossed
There was still that line that you would never cross
At any cost
I meant to ask you how you lived what you believed
With nothing but your heart up your sleeve
And if you ever really were deceived
By the likes of me
Bang the drum slowly play the pipe lowly
To dust be returning from dust we begin
Bang the drum slowly I'll speak of things holy
Above and below me world without end
Gone now is the day and gone the sun
There is peace tonight all over Arlington
But the songs of my life will still be sung
By the light of the New Moon
I meant to ask you how to plow that field
I meant to bring you water from the well
And be the one beside you when you fell
Could you tell
Bang the drum slowly play the pipe lowly
To dust be returning from dust we begin
Bang the drum slowly I'll speak of things holy
Above and below me world without end
Bang The Drum Slowly
Emmylou Harris
co-written with Guy Clark
I always meant to ask you about the war
And what you saw across a bridge too far
Did it leave a scar
Or how you navigated wings of fire and steel
Up where heaven had no more secrets to conceal
And still you found the ground beneath your wheels
How did it feel
Bang the drum slowly play the pipe lowly
To dust be returning from dust we begin
Bang the drum slowly I'll speak of things holy
Above and below me world without end
I meant to ask you how when everything seemed lost
And your fate was in a game of dice they tossed
There was still that line that you would never cross
At any cost
I meant to ask you how you lived what you believed
With nothing but your heart up your sleeve
And if you ever really were deceived
By the likes of me
Bang the drum slowly play the pipe lowly
To dust be returning from dust we begin
Bang the drum slowly I'll speak of things holy
Above and below me world without end
Gone now is the day and gone the sun
There is peace tonight all over Arlington
But the songs of my life will still be sung
By the light of the New Moon
I meant to ask you how to plow that field
I meant to bring you water from the well
And be the one beside you when you fell
Could you tell
Bang the drum slowly play the pipe lowly
To dust be returning from dust we begin
Bang the drum slowly I'll speak of things holy
Above and below me world without end
Bang The Drum Slowly
Emmylou Harris
co-written with Guy Clark
Posted on 7/30/20 at 12:52 pm to vl100butch
Why you let another man raise your child?
Posted on 7/30/20 at 12:52 pm to vl100butch
Why didn't you tell me to take the blue pill? 
Posted on 7/30/20 at 12:52 pm to vl100butch
I wish I would have recorded more stories from my grandfather
Posted on 7/30/20 at 12:57 pm to vl100butch
Did you know I was going to be the one to kill you?
Posted on 7/30/20 at 1:01 pm to vl100butch
quote:
Questions you'd wished you asked your father
Were you always a POS or just when you got married and fathered kids?
Posted on 7/30/20 at 1:27 pm to vl100butch
quote:Is there a payment plan out there that you haven't fallen in love with?
Questions you'd wished you asked your father
...but I'll say one thing. His terrible decisions caused me to make sure I didn't turn out the same way.
This post was edited on 7/30/20 at 1:30 pm
Posted on 7/30/20 at 1:32 pm to vl100butch
quote:Mine told me things on his deathbed that I didn't want to know about his experiences in WWII (Pacific).
Just wondering if any of y'all with WW2 veteran parents finally got the wisdom to ask questions of this sort, but didn't put the pieces together until they were gone...
I was the only family member he chose to share that with, probably the only other person.
I don't recommend it.
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