# Goodbye, Granddad.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goodbye-granddad/141499>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [December 9, 2002, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goodbye-granddad/141499 "2002-12-09T13:48:41Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\
**Post date:** [December 10, 2002, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goodbye-granddad/141499/21 "2002-12-10T14:35:00Z")

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{{{{{{{GfH}}}}}}}}}}

I loved my German **Opa** so much! He was the one who turned me on to The Kingston Trio, and every time I hear them I think of him.

**Opas** give the best hugs and their laps surpass any comfort a **La-Z-Boy** may offer.

I have never been to a memorial service of someone who has been cremated, so I cannot help you, but you are in my thoughts as I write this!

Much love and thanks for loving your **Yankee Doodle Dandy**!

Quasimodem

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**Author:** ![Gazelle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Gazelle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gazelle)\
**Post date:** [December 10, 2002, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goodbye-granddad/141499/22 "2002-12-10T15:30:24Z")

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Another memory of Grandad:

A long time ago, when I was a teenager, he told me the story of landing and making camp on a beach somewhere in the Far East during WWII. Their CO ordered them not to leave the camp as the enemy had been spotted nearby. The grunts could see a beached Japanese sub about a football field away; a few of them decided to check it out, despite boobytrap warnings. When everyone else had fallen asleep, Granddad and a couple of friends snuck over to the sub and took a few souvenirs. Granddad gave the clock he found to my uncle; my mother has it now. I remember asking him if he was scared, sneaking onto the sub. In his gravelly voice he answered, “Hell, yes.”

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