Category3Water t1_j9rz0vh wrote on February 24, 2023 at 3:16 AM

Reply to comment by throwaway_ghast in TIL about the 1938 Gettysburg Reunion, where veterans of The American Civil War met, they were on average 94 years old. by VengefulMight

My great great grandfather served in the confederacy as a teenager. My grandfather‘s grandfather. My grandfather served in WWII and only died within the last decade. That makes the past seem close. Theres a greater truth in that I grew up in an area that was majority black and so most of the kids my age had grandfathers that served in WWII as well, but didn’t get a GI Bill. And their grandfather’s grandfather had a lot riding on the outcome of the civil war as well. Maybe more. This country isn’t that old.

fulthrottlejazzhands t1_j9twiel wrote on February 24, 2023 at 3:11 PM

My great great grandfather was a Chaplin in the Civil War (got him literally straight off the boat at Ellis Island). His son was a doughboy in WW1. His son, my grandad fought in Italy, Normany, and the Bulge. My dad was a chopper pilot in Vietnam, in the shit, as it were.

I fought bravely and with distinction in the War Against Al-Qatala on PS4.

Edit: on a serious note, I was lucky enough to know my great grandfather whose father, in turn, was in the Civil War - - and I'm not that old.