Thursday Thought of the Day
A statement I uttered while on the phone with my cousin last weekend, while I was trying to find out my maternal grandfather's parents name: "It is questions like this that we really should have asked when the people who knew the answers were still with us." My daughter was finishing up a Genealogy project she was doing for school. I called 3 different family members, and no one knew my grandfather's parent's names. My great grandparents names were lost. How quickly our lives are forgotten, how quickly our names are no longer important. My maternal grandparents both passed away before I was born, and for some reason they were not talked about much. They both passed away by the time they were in their early 60's, and each one experienced a difficult health issue before their death. What we heard most about them is their suffering at the end of their lives. There were some great accomplishments my grandfather achieved, we know a fe...