RE: He's Turned 100 Years Young. Because He's Not Old.

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It sounds like your family has a history of longevity. My birth-father's side of the family is the same way. They have a history of living well into their 90s.

My dad (foster-father), as you know, was also a member of the great generation and a World War II veteran serving in Normandy and England where he met and married my mom. We are losing many of the folks from that generation. I do miss mom and dad's stories about what it was like to live through the depression and the second world war.

G-D bless your Uncle Ken and I wish him health and good fortune, as I do you! Hopefully, I will speak with you again during the next PYPT!



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Three of my grandparents either passed or came close to the 100 mark. My paternal grandfather and maternal grandmother were both 99 when they died.

My maternal grandfather was 89 when he passed. He suffered from dementia for many years so his passing was a blessing. He was a veteran of both WW1 and WW2. One of the early indications of the dementia was him turning every conversation into him talking about his time in the Navy. What we learned later was that it wasn't so much a fixation on the Navy, that was the time period his mind was comfortable with as it lost the present. It was his father that went down on the Titanic, he was 14 at the time.

Both my parents died of cancer, mother at 74 and dad at 83.

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