Oh, wow, he could be your brother, you look so much alike.
I'm glad he's home. Did I tell you my brother is doing a documentary on effects of the Vietnam war. They interviewed my dad and the parents of my dad's friend who died. He was their only son and 35 years later, my dad found them and they've been close ever since.
I grew up under the sad shadow of Jimmy. When I was a little girl, I heard about how I looked just like him. If you hold photographs of us together as children, we looked like twins. We had nearly the same dental patterns - and even to this day, ironically, we are both missing the same tooth.
It was something that impacted me, greatly. And when I heard he was coming home, I was more than moved.
I'm sad that it took this long, but I am more happy that he is finally home. I regret that my grandmother isn't alive today to expirience it, but I think that she knew all along that Jimmy wasn't coming home alive.
It's sad. War is sad and the fact that they kept him in a warehouse for forty years is ridiculous. I can't even fathom as to why.
it wasn't actually a warehouse. It was the Drama gene acting up again. I sunk into the folder my dad had of all of Uncle Jimmy's stuff, well more like I looked at it b/c it was right on the kitchen table. I was looking at the pictures and was stunned. They didn't find him in a warehouse, they found him in a religious grave site. There was a small stand where there was fruit placed on top of it and there were flowers on the ground. Not to mention the bones that were found where neatly wrapped in cloth and then placed in a small coffin.
it makes me sick to think that's what my father thinks of as a warehouse.
It's a sad thing that happened, but honestly I wish my father paid more attention to what was going on with my sister and me as we grew up. There isn't a room he dedicated just for us.
I'm sorry, I'm just very bitter with my father right now.
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I'm glad he's home. Did I tell you my brother is doing a documentary on effects of the Vietnam war. They interviewed my dad and the parents of my dad's friend who died. He was their only son and 35 years later, my dad found them and they've been close ever since.
Anyway, I'm glad Jimmy is home.
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It was something that impacted me, greatly. And when I heard he was coming home, I was more than moved.
I'm sad that it took this long, but I am more happy that he is finally home. I regret that my grandmother isn't alive today to expirience it, but I think that she knew all along that Jimmy wasn't coming home alive.
It's sad. War is sad and the fact that they kept him in a warehouse for forty years is ridiculous. I can't even fathom as to why.
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it makes me sick to think that's what my father thinks of as a warehouse.
It's a sad thing that happened, but honestly I wish my father paid more attention to what was going on with my sister and me as we grew up. There isn't a room he dedicated just for us.
I'm sorry, I'm just very bitter with my father right now.
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