Reply #7: I think he was pretty healthy [View All]

he was a very quiet and private man. I wonder sometimes if he suffered from PTSD?

But he just didn't talk about it. I read his diary and it was a window into a man I'd never known. I read it after he died. It discussed his time in France. His love for my grandmother as well.

Amazing to me that the man I read about was the man I had known. He was older when I was born and was in his 70's when I was a kid.

I always just knew he had his rituals, he liked Cardinal baseball and watched it always, and that he read the paper every morning without fail He also went to the Catholic Church despite the fact that he'd been I guess excommunicated or at least he couldn't take communion because my mother and her sister weren't raised Catholic. I admire my grandfather, I did then, and I've had dreams about him where he's come to me and talked and was reassuring. The dreams were so different from my life experiences with him, but they always have made an impact on my life.

:shrug: