Posted by GAIllini
on April 3, 2026, 14:44:45, in reply to "I regret not asking my grandmother 1895-1976 about that lifetime leap *"
He was the best grandpa anyone could have wanted.
He fought in the Cavalry in WWI. Spent the rest of his life farming in Western Illinois (Fulton County).
The two of us were hand digging a trench for drainage tile across a field and I was 16, perfectly fit and wearing shorts, and a t-shirt. He is wearing overalls, a long sleeved shirt and of course his hat. I'm sweating buckets and he is not even breaking a sweat. He would have been around 77 at that time.
He didn't believe we landed on the moon. He thought it was all staged.
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