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re: What's the closest you or a family member has been to a part of history?
Posted on 5/5/24 at 8:02 am to OWLFAN86
Posted on 5/5/24 at 8:02 am to OWLFAN86
I guess the closest thing for me personally is having visited the World Trade Center before 9/11. I visited in 1990 when I was 11, and 9/11 happened when I was 22. I have an eerie picture of me looking out over the Hudson from the indoor observatory of the South Tower around sunset.
Anyway, because of my youth at the time of 9/11, if I live to be 80+ there probably won’t be too many people still kicking around who will be able to say they visited those buildings that are a big part of American history.
Anyway, because of my youth at the time of 9/11, if I live to be 80+ there probably won’t be too many people still kicking around who will be able to say they visited those buildings that are a big part of American history.
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Posted on 5/5/24 at 8:25 am to OWLFAN86
Marine grandfather fought at Chosin Reservoir. He was the toughest human I have ever met.
Other was a navigator for a plane that carried atomic bombs to Japan (his plane was the backup to the Enola Gay).
Other was a navigator for a plane that carried atomic bombs to Japan (his plane was the backup to the Enola Gay).
Posted on 5/5/24 at 8:28 am to OWLFAN86
My wife’s grandfather was a sailor on one of the ships that transported the A-bombs that we dropped on Japan
Posted on 5/5/24 at 8:29 am to OWLFAN86
I was in the dome for the Saints NFC championship victory over the Vikings.
I rode the gondola across the MS river the day it opened, which was the week before the worlds fair opened.
My maternal grandfather is first cousins with Edwin Edwards. I didn’t know that until last year and I’m in my 50s. He was also 2nd cousin to Justin Trudeau. As Clark Griswold once said, “That’s nothing to be proud of Rusty”
I rode the gondola across the MS river the day it opened, which was the week before the worlds fair opened.
My maternal grandfather is first cousins with Edwin Edwards. I didn’t know that until last year and I’m in my 50s. He was also 2nd cousin to Justin Trudeau. As Clark Griswold once said, “That’s nothing to be proud of Rusty”
Posted on 5/5/24 at 9:26 am to OWLFAN86
My grandfather (whom I’m named after) knocked up Hank Williams Jr’s mom. They married young and she cheated on him with Hank while he was overseas during WW2.
Freed slaves from my grandmother’s grandfather’s plantation started Grambling University.
That’s about all I got.
Freed slaves from my grandmother’s grandfather’s plantation started Grambling University.
That’s about all I got.
This post was edited on 5/5/24 at 2:07 pm
Posted on 5/5/24 at 10:24 am to OWLFAN86
Great x7 grandfather was a Patriot. Fought alongside Gen. George Washington.
And a cousin was a WW2 POW for 4 years and involved in the Bataan Death March. He survived and later wrote a book. Girocho.
And a cousin was a WW2 POW for 4 years and involved in the Bataan Death March. He survived and later wrote a book. Girocho.
This post was edited on 5/5/24 at 10:28 am
Posted on 5/5/24 at 10:39 am to OWLFAN86
Few whites have my last name, but many African Americans do, pre civil war we must have been ballin'
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