My grandfather was nineteen when he went to Germany. He spent three months as a POW and when I was growing up it was made clear that you didn't ask him about it and my mom would tell me about hearing his nightmares in the middle of the night.
Now that he's gone I wish I could ask him about it, where he was, which of his lifelong friends he'd met where, all of it. It's fascinating. My grandmother has all the letters he wrote to his mother while he was in a hospital recovering and my aunt spent a few months typing them all up but I never sat down and read them. I think I should do that.
Anyway, thank you for typing that up and sharing it. I don't know if I can handle watching the series but maybe I'll read about it.
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Date: 2010-01-27 10:41 pm (UTC)My grandfather was nineteen when he went to Germany. He spent three months as a POW and when I was growing up it was made clear that you didn't ask him about it and my mom would tell me about hearing his nightmares in the middle of the night.
Now that he's gone I wish I could ask him about it, where he was, which of his lifelong friends he'd met where, all of it. It's fascinating. My grandmother has all the letters he wrote to his mother while he was in a hospital recovering and my aunt spent a few months typing them all up but I never sat down and read them. I think I should do that.
Anyway, thank you for typing that up and sharing it. I don't know if I can handle watching the series but maybe I'll read about it.