My family on all three sides (I count my step-father's family) had multiple losses in both WWI & WWII and as a child it saddened me how many photos we had of men in uniform (not just from those two wars) who'd been lost to war and that no one quite remembered who they all were any more.
Grandpa Jack has been a mysterious figure in our family for almost my whole life. Grandma refused to speak about him while Grandpa Joe was alive because she didn't want to offend him (which didn't seem likely to me, but whatever...). Dad has always maintained that he's not interested in Jack because he has no memory of him, but the details that I've managed to get out of Grandma suggest that Dad and Jack are quite similar in temperament.
Sidney died when I was very young - Mum was the youngest of 3 kids and he was in his 40s when she was born. Mum knows everything about his life with Grandma, but almost nothing else. He never spoke of his family or where he came from - it's like he just walked out of the ether one day into the West Yorkshire countryside.
I wish I knew more about both of them... I suppose that's part of the remembrance too.
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It's a lovely tribute to them all. ♥
My family on all three sides (I count my step-father's family) had multiple losses in both WWI & WWII and as a child it saddened me how many photos we had of men in uniform (not just from those two wars) who'd been lost to war and that no one quite remembered who they all were any more.
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Sidney died when I was very young - Mum was the youngest of 3 kids and he was in his 40s when she was born. Mum knows everything about his life with Grandma, but almost nothing else. He never spoke of his family or where he came from - it's like he just walked out of the ether one day into the West Yorkshire countryside.
I wish I knew more about both of them... I suppose that's part of the remembrance too.
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