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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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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.
1984 was A Warning Not A Manual
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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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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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