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    Quote Originally Posted by Jackson View Post
    One that always comes to mind very readily is of my paternal great-great grandfather. He was a canal barge worker and prize fighter/pugilist working/competing between London and Hertford. Anyway, one day a young boy falls into the canal between two barges that are coming together. So my g-g-grandfather jumps in and manages to rescue the boy, but unfortunately is injured in the process (either by being hit with a barge-pole, or by being caught between the two barges, i'm not 100% sure which). Anyway, apparently his health was seriously injured (and so he couldn't fight or work as normal), and unfortunately he turned to drink to cope with life afterwards, which i believe had negative effects on his family. Anyway, my great-grandfather was pretty much tee-total as a result and my grandfather and father were/are light drinkers at most.

    Sounds like a good man, but unfortunate. Probably not an uncommon story i'd imagine, though.
    That's sad. That a good action would end up "ruining" the rest of his life.

    Not the reward one would have expected for such bravery.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kriptcov View Post
    its not totally unheard of, i heard cases of people developing dementia after WWII
    After most wars actually. Many veterans from the Vietnam war have had similar problems.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tobi View Post
    Same here. But for the austro-hungarian empire. But he left Hungary after the war and died as a crazy man in Brazil. According to my grandfather he was very catholic and killed to many people in the WWI to be okay with it.
    It's interesting to see that WWI affected so many members' families on here. And that there were not necessarily on the same side but the outcomes were the same.

    Would our ancestors have guessed that their descendants would be chatting with their ennemies' descendants a hundred years after the events?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Valmont View Post
    It's interesting to see that WWI affected so many members' families on here. And that there were not necessarily on the same side but the outcomes were the same.

    Would our ancestors have guessed that their descendants would be chatting with their ennemies' descendants a hundred years after the events?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Valmont View Post
    It's interesting to see that WWI affected so many members' families on here. And that there were not necessarily on the same side but the outcomes were the same.

    Would our ancestors have guessed that their descendants would be chatting with their ennemies' descendants a hundred years after the events?
    Probably not. But as far as I know, he was a pacifist and a very kind person.
    Also become so mad due to the fact of killed an enemy who helped him in some point with food and water.

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    My paternal grandma was born in January 1916 as an illegitimate child.
    Her father was in the front at the time, as a soldier of Austro-Hungarian Empire.
    Almost 1 year later (Christmas 1916) he received a furlough and on 31 December he married mother of my grandma.
    Grandma became legitimate child since the time.
    He had to go back to front and never came back.
    He died in 1918 at military hospital at Osijek (Croatia).

    Parents of my mother met each other at Youth Detention Center
    But they were not imprisoned there. My grandma worked as a cook there.
    Grandpa was a painter, who was hired to paint walls, there.
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    My maternal grand father (the father of my Spanish mom) was a leftist republican during the Spanish civil war. Mallorca Island (where my maternal Spanish family is from) was occupied by the National Forces (the rebel forces led by Franco), and my grandpa was arrested and sent to a concentration camp (the Bellver castle, in Palma de Mallorca) where he was about to be shot.

    If it wasn't because his dad had contacts with some military personnel, and got this way to have him released, my grandpa would have been executed without meeting my grandma, and my mom would not exist, and let alone my grandpa would had settled later in Venezuela, as he did, with my grandma and my mom (when she was 5 years old).

    Obviously, I would not exist, and I would not be writing on this forum.

    You would not have Alnortedelsur on this forum, lol
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    Quote Originally Posted by alnortedelsur View Post
    My paternal grand father (the father of my Spanish mom) was a leftist republican during the Spanish civil war. Mallorca Island (where my maternal Spanish family is from) was occupied by the National Forces (the rebel forces led by Franco), and my grandpa was arrested and sent to a concentration camp (the Bellver castle, in Palma de Mallorca) where he was about to be shot.

    If it wasn't because his dad had contacts with some military personnel, and got this way to have him released, my grandpa would have been executed without meeting my grandma, and my mom would not exist, and let alone my grandpa would had settled later in Venezuela, as he did, with my grandma and my mom (when she was 5 years old).

    Obviously, I would not exist, and I would not be writing on this forum.

    You would not have Alnortedelsur on this forum, lol
    Funny how our lives came to be through the succession of different circumstances.

    Your history has a lot of "what if"?

    Maybe our actions will have consequences that we will never be aware of.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Valmont View Post
    Funny how our lives came to be through the succession of different circumstances.

    Your history has a lot of "what if"?

    Maybe our actions will have consequences that we will never be aware of.
    Yeah, I think any of us would not be in here, if something (anything) in the history of many of your ancestors would have had a different outcome, because anybody's ancestral history is full of "what ifs".

    That means that we should all feel lucky to exist
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    Quote Originally Posted by alnortedelsur View Post
    Yeah, I think any of us would not be in here, if something (anything) in the history of many of your ancestors would have had a different outcome, because anybody's ancestral history is full of "what ifs".

    This means that we should all feel lucky to exist
    And enjoy every moment because we should remember that our existence is only temporary.

    Someday we'll have been dead for hundreds of years ago and our descendants (if we have any) will wonder about our lives and say.

    "What if my ancestor Valmont had never done this? He would have never done this and this would have never happened!"

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