3 ms·
Grandpa is 97 this year. He still refuses to support the red cross, because they charged for coffee and donuts in WW2 Guam. He still talks about it like it was
by Loughla 7y ago
Grandpa is 97 this year. He still refuses to support the red cross, because they charged for coffee and donuts in WW2 Guam.
He still talks about it like it was a personal attack. I grew up thinking the Red Cross was a for-profit war-profiteering leach of an organization.
- afterburner 7y ago> He still talks about it like it was a personal attack Not surprising, otherwise he wouldn't hold the grudge for so long. Many climate change deniers feel like even implying they're a (tiny) part of the (systemic) problem is a personal attack, hence their shitty attitude about science.
- dsfyu404ed 7y agoI know a guy who died recently who didn't eat rice and exclusively bought Chinese and Korean electronics as a result of his involuntary relocation to a certain pacific island from 1942-45. He wasn't personally the target by any of the orders that the people he was wronged by were following yet I think most people would consider the grudge reasonable since he was personally affected even though it wasn't personally targeted at him. I consider OP's grandfather's grudge to be along those same lines albeit over a much more minor wrong.
- redis_mlc 7y ago> He wasn't personally the target by any of the orders that the people he was wronged by I study WW2, especially the Pacific. Trust me, that war was taken very personally, especially by infantry. (The next time you watch a documentary on Saipan or Tarawa, note the American rifles are pointed at the ground, since the enemy was coming up through cave networks behind lines. Talk about close quarters fighting!)