My Grandfather

... quot;good-byes" and "I love yous" it was time for them to start a journey into unknown territory in South East Asia. At four p.m. my grandfather left Ohio for the base in Oakland. When he arrived at nine p.m., he was told that the 1st Cavalry would be staying overnight. At five a.m., he took ... was popularly known as the 'First Team', it was the only American division to fight in all four corps tactical zones". (History.com). My grandfather was the point man of his platoon, this meant that he would be the one in front leading the group through the dangerous Vietnamese terrain. Him a...

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... . They went to a local hospital because the vice president, of his company, was complaining of concussion symptoms. As they entered the hospital, my grandfather felt very dizzy. About an hour later he was throwing up and then had a seizure. These three symptoms when combined are signs of internal ... cases there is so much bleeding that the doctors need to extract the blood off the brain's surface. This was the case for my grandfather. The first thing that my grandfather suffered from was a subdural hemorrhage, which was caused by the traumatic impact. A subdural hemorrhage is a collectio...

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... married and stayed in the same small town in Italy. As years past these children had offspring of their own. My great grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Raffaele Lucatelli, had two girls and a boy. My great aunts Libia and Pina, and my grandfather Giuliano Lucatelli. My grandfather was schooled in Italy and joined the Italian military. I believe it was in 1950 that he returned to his hometown ... that they met and a year later got married. After spending about a year in Italy it was the summer of 1952 that my grandfather moved back to America with my grandmother. They settled in her native town...

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... experience it before. I prefer to not deal with death, but like anything else in life, that is not always possible. I know now that I was not prepared for the death of my grandfather. Imagine speaking to your grandfather on the way to school, and before you get there to sit in your first class you called to the office with the news that your ... in the Army, and stationed in Texas were all affected. Who would now come home to comfort us, and be a support to my oldest brother who is just as lost as I am? I started to remember the good times hearing Grandfather's voice, and know that I wi...

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... me the next morning. Since my aunt Antonia promised me that she would give me a tour of my grandfather's ranch, I got up early in the morning. I was very anxious to go to a place that my uncle and my grandfather had talked to me about. Both my uncle and my grandfather told me the story of when my grandpa first bought his ranch. ... He bought it about seventy years ago when he first married grandma, and he has been living there ever since. When my grandfather moved to his ranch he noticed something odd in "El Oro", (The Gold) which is a field nearby his ranch. There were many holes ... a...

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... positioned her favorite and most elegant table cloth with beautiful, festive flowers. While everyone was enjoying the meal and reminiscing, my grandfather looked at his beautiful wife and said out loud, "look Rose, look what we made, our special children and grandchildren. It's a beautiful sight. I have five diamonds."" She then replied with a ... done reading, he leaned over and asked Rose to see to it that the children keep our traditions alive. My grandmother tells me that she didn't quite understand what he meant at the time, but six months later on November,11,1987, my grandfather...

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... after school. Sports are not the only way he showed his support, as Papa also used to help us with our homework. Loving support from my grandfather has kept me going and allowed me to focus on the positive aspects of life. Papa used to tell me stories about his struggles as ... a naval officer during World War II. He saved a fellow soldier during the Pearl Harbor attack. My grandfather was a strong, courageous fighter. His stories have taught me that there is a reason behind every struggle, and what really matters is how a person learns ... to overcome adversity. When my grandfather mar...

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... of War Times. He repeatedly reminded us to cherish our times with our families because many of his army friends never returned to their families. My grandfather's courage and endurance in battle lead him to recieveing many medals, but he was very humble about his accomplishments. His strong sense of the ... past helps us all to remember where we came from, and those who came before us. When other people remember my grandfather, they always mention his kindness and honesty towards others, as being his most memorable charadcter trait. Poppaw loved people, and helping people was a natural ....

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... very quickly. There was only one thing to do, take him to the hospital. First I called a cab to the house. While waiting for it to arrive, I made my grandfather as comfortable as I could and comforted my grandmother. She was in a state of shock and I didn't want her to accompany us to the hospital, lest she got ill too. When the cab arrived, I asked ... the cab driver to help me carry my grandfather to the cab. From then on, time seems to have flown by as we rushed towards the hospital at lightning speed. Upon reaching we went through the emergency drive through ... and caught the atte...

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... today. She was and always will be, one of the most important people of my life. My grandmother became pregnant with her first child at the young age of seventeen. After she conceived Donna, my aunt, she and my grandfather decided to get married. Four years after they got married along came my mother, Angie. The four of them had a rough life, money was tight and ... things didn't always go the way they had planned. They pulled together as a family and did the best that they could do. In 1977 she and my grandfather opened up a small family owned carpet store right outside of town. When th...

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