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celticeagle @celticeagle (189927) • Boise, Idaho 11 Nov

I don't get to the cemetery, but I recall my grandmother used to go. She knew so many soldiers from several wars. She was a nurse's aide when she was young. I honor my grandfather, Orsa Drake Moore (he was called O.D.) He was in...

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No Sun Here Lately, But the Camellias Are Brightening The Days Up!

Kareng @kareng (80243) • United States 19 Dec 24

We have had more gray days so far this winter than nice and mild sunny days. I hope that isn't an omen that the winter is going to be wet, cold, and gray for the rest of the season. Knock on wood!! However, my camellias are...

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Missing my grandparents

Patricia Ocampo @iKONICNoona (4403) • Philippines 31 Jul 23

I was cleaning my room last night when I found this photo. Its a photo of my grandfather and grandmother carrying me when I was still little. They are my grandparents on my mothets side. My grandfather was in the army with a...

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Your Grandpa and You

Amber @AmbiePam (120987) • United States 22 Jul 23

I understand some of you didn’t know your grandfather(s), and some of you may have wished you hadn’t. I only knew my maternal grandfather, and he was wonderful. He had five granddaughters, and delighted in every single one. He...

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My paternal grandfather

Wendy @jerzgirl (9384) • United States 4 Jun 23

Today (June 4) is the 123rd anniversary of my dad's father's birth. We didn't really have much of a relationship. I would help him read dates on coins he was cataloguing in his collection, sometimes ride with him on errands and...

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Grandfather rescues a woman who was trapped inside a fire in a hotel

George B Vieto @Deepizzaguy (122256) • Lake Charles, Louisiana 15 Mar 23

Greg Spike who is 74 years of age admitted that he was at the right place at the right time on Tuesday February 28 when he was jogging in Eugene Oregon around the Williamette River when he saw a hotel on fire. A female named...

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Young boy saves his grandfather who nearly drowned in a swimming pool

George B Vieto @Deepizzaguy (122256) • Lake Charles, Louisiana 4 Sep 22

Christian Matos who is a eight year old boy is being praised by his mother Cerise Hammie as a savior after he was inside of a swimming pool at an apartment complex in Greensboro North Carolina on August 18 spending time...

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Grandfather was at the right place at the right time when he saved 3 children

George B Vieto @Deepizzaguy (122256) • Lake Charles, Louisiana 7 Mar 22

Car Noble who is a grandfather is being called a guardian angel by the parents of three children who were inside their auto in a parking lot at Lawnwood Elementary School in Fort Pierce Florida on a Wednesday afternoon last month...

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December 4 2020

AmyahRealChillGang @Mayabee21 (326) 29 Nov 21

This is my grandpa and he has passed away last year. He’s the only grandparent I have remembered from my mom’s side of the family. My grandma also has passed away when I was a baby but I don’t remember her. I was thinking about...

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A granddaughter makes a special visit to see her grandfather after her wedding

George B Vieto @Deepizzaguy (122256) • Lake Charles, Louisiana 13 Sep 21

Natalie Browning. 28, who recently got married in Virginia is one young sweet granddaughter that did her grandfather Nelson May, 94, who lives in Florida a special visit after the wedding ceremony a visit as her way to make him...

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Grandfather saves the lives of his family from a house fire

George B Vieto @Deepizzaguy (122256) • Lake Charles, Louisiana 1 Aug 21

Jeff Sheets who is a grandfather who lives nearby in a separate home where his daughter, his son in law and four grandchildren live is being praised for taking action early Friday morning when a fire broke out in the home of his...

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PART TWO - Saw my Poppy (Grandfather) at the hospital tonight....

****DANIELLE**** @VivaLaDani13 (60812) • Perth, Australia 14 May 21

Sorry to make a part two, it's just easier as I hate making long posts. Anyway, continuing on, my dad and I went to see Poppy tonight in the hospital. My Poppy smiled when we saw us. His dementia has got worse. Not long after we...

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PART ONE - Saw my Poppy (Grandfather) at the hospital tonight....

****DANIELLE**** @VivaLaDani13 (60812) • Perth, Australia 14 May 21

As some of you know, my Poppy (my Grandfather, not my dad) is in hospital. I believe it's been 16 or 17 days in total since he has been there. From my understanding, the first reason he went there was due to complications with...

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I Learned Something New

Michelle Renee Kidwell @Michellekidwell (29953) • Sonora, California 13 Apr 21

I learned something that I had no idea about, I knew my Grandfather had played an extra on Little House on the Prairie, that my Mother and Grandparents had shared a meal with Michael Landon, what I did not know was that my a few...

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A secret donor pays the medical bill for a Kentucky man

George B Vieto @Deepizzaguy (122256) • Lake Charles, Louisiana 31 Mar 21

A secret female is being called a wonderful person for donating money to assist 77 year old grandfather Jim Penick who lives in Kenton County Kentucky who needed $8,000 dollars to have surgery so he could have a new tooth...

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Last night was my Poppy's birthday....

****DANIELLE**** @VivaLaDani13 (60812) • Perth, Australia 7 Mar 21

So last night was my Poppy’s (grandfather) birthday. My dad, brother and I went to my Nan and Pop’s house to have some pizza and some cake. Sadly there were a few times my Pop asked us who’s birthday it was. When we first walked...

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Call Sheet

Michelle Renee Kidwell @Michellekidwell (29953) • Sonora, California 7 Oct 20

As I said in my previous post I was going through some family photos and memorabilia. The call sheet was amongst them, were thinking this was when my Grandfather briefly played the role of a judge on Little House on the...

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Kind of Thought this Was Cool

Michelle Renee Kidwell @Michellekidwell (29953) • Sonora, California 7 Oct 20

I was going through my Nonna’s parents and came across a pic I wasn’t even aware I had, my Grandfather served in the Second World War in the South Pacific. I was young when he died, not yet nine, but as I grew older the...

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Do you smoke?

Exitoo @Exitoo (83) • Semarang, Indonesia 24 Sep 20

Do you smoke? How dangerous is smoking? In my country there is a grandfather who likes to smoke from he was 20 years old until now he is 91 years old and is still actively smoking, there are no signs of him being sick like in most...

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picture of the wisconsin river circa 1962

Scott Andersen @DocAndersen (54399) • United States 6 Apr 20

My grandfather loved the Wisconsin River. Most of the slides he left my father (and by extension me) are of somewhere on that river. This picture was taken near Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin but not near the Dells themselves. I...

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