Tonight my Uncle and Aunt
wanted to get to together for
dinner and to give us something
that they have been working on
for a while.
It was a complete history of my
Grandparents and the Staples
side of the family. They have spent so
much time on this and wanted to share it with
us. They gave us a thumb drive with all the info
on it.
We had a Yummy dinner at Cafe Rio and then
headed back to Mom's house to
look at what they were giving us.
There was so many pictures of my dad
that I have never seen and Larry had some really
great stories about a lot of the pictures!
He told us some things about my Grandpa that
I never knew, like how when he came
home from WW2 he had been on
rations for so long that he was
pretty much starved and when the war was over
they had to get all the soldiers home and they
were on boats for a month or longer and when
he got home it was Thanksgiving and all
he could eat ( or all his stomach could hold) was a
couple of peas and some mashed potatoes.
He not only came home dealing with
the starvation and the horror he saw in war
he came home to a 2 year old son he had never met.
Makes you think that what we have to
complain about is pretty lame compared to
what others have survived.
It was a fun night and hopefully
we can all start getting together more often.
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