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Wrenching Dad
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A Former German POW lives in our neighborhood and still on occasional evenings walks by our house. It's been sometime since I've seen him. 99 years old. Immigrated to the US and became an exec with Benz.
Captured in Africa, sent to the US/Arizona and post war worked a citrus farm not too far from where he lives today. "We were well treated in the camp, even paid for our work" he once told me.
I got to wondering what became of him and I'll be damned that same week he and his son walked by. I was glad to see him. Made me smile.
He asked about our cat that tapped out at the end of his life cycle some time ago. Meiko the cat, renown by all the neighbors took care of the rodent and dive bombing birds for a half block in either direction of our home. Always returned home happy and well fed.
My dad just turned 99 and still cooks and makes the most awesome salads and spaghetti sauce. He reloads shells my wife collects while picking up trash around campsites. The last of the living WW2.
Dad has an awesome upstairs outdoor deck near the American River and still hosts a weekly WW2 and Korea veteran lunch. Theirs but a few left.
Much younger veterans nicknamed The Better Angels assist all the old Veterans with food deliveries, house repairs-runs to the doctor-check on them twice a day and so on.
Dad had retina surgery yesterday and it went perfect.
Anything make you smile recently?
Captured in Africa, sent to the US/Arizona and post war worked a citrus farm not too far from where he lives today. "We were well treated in the camp, even paid for our work" he once told me.
I got to wondering what became of him and I'll be damned that same week he and his son walked by. I was glad to see him. Made me smile.
He asked about our cat that tapped out at the end of his life cycle some time ago. Meiko the cat, renown by all the neighbors took care of the rodent and dive bombing birds for a half block in either direction of our home. Always returned home happy and well fed.
My dad just turned 99 and still cooks and makes the most awesome salads and spaghetti sauce. He reloads shells my wife collects while picking up trash around campsites. The last of the living WW2.
Dad has an awesome upstairs outdoor deck near the American River and still hosts a weekly WW2 and Korea veteran lunch. Theirs but a few left.
Much younger veterans nicknamed The Better Angels assist all the old Veterans with food deliveries, house repairs-runs to the doctor-check on them twice a day and so on.
Dad had retina surgery yesterday and it went perfect.
Anything make you smile recently?
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