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That's an interesting read. Lots of insight and perspective. Gives a lot of pause for self-reflection. Hard to think of the reality your relatives endured...
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That's an interesting read. Lots of insight and perspective. Gives a lot of pause for self-reflection. Hard to think of the reality your relatives endured...
Cycle I want to break. I know my parents and my grandparents. My grandparents on my dad side passed before I could remember who they were. I really just want to be able to tell my kids when they’re curious just like I am about their roots. My mom knows very little and my dad does as well because of the rocky history. I’m not trying to captain save someone but it’s purely about me wanting to know and be able to answer those questions my kids have (if I ever have kids)
You're his roots.
Teach him to be a good man like his father.
He won't need anything else
- Jul 1, 2015
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You and PB are on the same page as me. I won't go into detail but the cycle stops with me. I appreciate the thoughtfulness and the kind words, my friend.
I know what I’m gonna tell my kids
First person to EVER go to college on both sides of my family. Although I look at it as a little accomplishment my mother reminds me daily that I am the first to do it. Getting a degree cool and all but I refuse to let me children look at me how I look at my father. Rant is over. I’m just inspired man 22 years old doing things I couldn’t even dream of 12 years ago. It’s a blessing fellas I think these meds are messing with my head making me think all deeply sorry.
Rant over
Rant over
I can trace my lineage with certainty to 1575. Family has a coat of arms with a Viking rune on it. Pretty cool.
My mom wrote down our family history going down 150 or so years.
My granfather stormed the Czar's Winter Palace. Then ended up in Stalin's death camps. He spent WW2 trying to survive in Kolyma. Escaped, was caught. Had his sentence doubled.
Part of the family goes back to Catherine the Great times and German immigrants.
Long story. When we meet, I might tell more.
My granfather stormed the Czar's Winter Palace. Then ended up in Stalin's death camps. He spent WW2 trying to survive in Kolyma. Escaped, was caught. Had his sentence doubled.
Part of the family goes back to Catherine the Great times and German immigrants.
Long story. When we meet, I might tell more.
- Jul 1, 2015
- 18,091
- 98,514
- 113
- Zip code
- 31028
No apologies! We ALL have rants, trials, backstories, ups, downs, good times, hard times, fucked up family members...it's what makes us who we are!
I like to think there is some common ground we all share, good or bad, that brought us all here--we all get each other and have each other's backs.
My grandfather in which I’m named after was in WWII
No need to apologise. Be a good man & that's all that counts. I'm the 1st in my family to get a degree as well. My mom graduated valedictorian from her high school but they were so poor she couldn't even go to the local vo-tech community college. My dad was one of the 2 best men I have known in my 60+ years on the planet. His dad & one of his brothers were violent alcoholics. As @Old Skool said, my dad is my roots, not them. Hell, when I graduated valedictorian from high school, the principal kept trying to find a way to deny it because I was a long-haired biker from the "wrong" family. They cancelled the valedictorian speech that year & only that year. Fuck em. They don't define me.
I say we all meet up get drunk and share these stories. No seriously......I spend more time here talking to y’all than I do my friends that live right up the road. I know I have a hard time relating to people my age I think that’s why I’m single haha
Oh and that’s probably all I know about my grandfather besides he was a rolling stone.....haha
Meds fucking with my head fo sho. @gaigeboyd i need ambien
No lie Grunk, 8th grade year teacher Mrs. Murray told me I would be dead or in jail by 18. That inspired me!
THIS IS WHY I DONT DO MEDS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Good for you. Don't let some close-minded self-important jerk define who you are or what you can do.
Well fellas, I did it. I finally scored an AK. And it's somewhat paid off considering I spent $80 for a rifle I didnt even have yet. NOTE: Buy parts for said rifle AFTER you have it. Lol.
A neighbor of my grandparents had a Century WASR-10 that's been sitting in his safe for almost a decade. I've spent the last few hours cleaning the surface rust off. It wasn't much but still needs some TLC here and there. Showed him my Century c308 and he decided the WASR, cleaning kit (bayonet included), 3-30 rounders, 1-10 rounders, a 75 Round Drum, 500 rounds (I counted them up lol) of FMJ and $100.00 cash should even up the trade. I swapped out the furniture and muzzle brake with the studf I already bought. I know it's a Romanian but kinda going for the Chinese look with the furniture. Also, just ordered a East German wire stock, will be here this week. Before and after pics below. How do y'all think I did trade wise?
A neighbor of my grandparents had a Century WASR-10 that's been sitting in his safe for almost a decade. I've spent the last few hours cleaning the surface rust off. It wasn't much but still needs some TLC here and there. Showed him my Century c308 and he decided the WASR, cleaning kit (bayonet included), 3-30 rounders, 1-10 rounders, a 75 Round Drum, 500 rounds (I counted them up lol) of FMJ and $100.00 cash should even up the trade. I swapped out the furniture and muzzle brake with the studf I already bought. I know it's a Romanian but kinda going for the Chinese look with the furniture. Also, just ordered a East German wire stock, will be here this week. Before and after pics below. How do y'all think I did trade wise?