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Subject: BS: Relatives go figure From: olddude Date: 13 Nov 12 - 04:49 PM My uncle who long passed was a WWII fighter pilot, Ace, distinguised flying cross, silver star .. left the army Ai rcorp a full bird Colonel. Well he died, my aunt died, all his sons but one passed away .. young early 50's. My remaining loser cousin ... sold his DFC on ebay for 200 bucks. WTF ...I was named after him ... I guess nothing means anything to some people. I would have given him the cash just to keep it in the family ... Fer fck sakes. Go figure huh |
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Subject: RE: BS: Relatives go figure From: John MacKenzie Date: 13 Nov 12 - 05:00 PM So sorry Dan, that's a slap in the kisser and no mistake. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Relatives go figure From: olddude Date: 13 Nov 12 - 05:04 PM Yea I was just talking to my brother and asked him if he ever heard from my cousin... then we got to talking about our uncle .. go figure hun. I could have screamed when my brother told me that is what he said. Oh well |
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Subject: RE: BS: Relatives go figure From: olddude Date: 13 Nov 12 - 05:06 PM somewhere in my family is a medal of honor from the civil war earned by a great great whatever uncle. Since that cannot be sold it was probably traded for a case of beer |
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Subject: RE: BS: Relatives go figure From: gnu Date: 13 Nov 12 - 05:15 PM Oh, Dan. That is truly sad. A couple of years ago, I went through a similar experience with some family heirlooms that should have come to me by rights (four of five were actually mine entrusted by me to my bro - long story) at least for safekeeping within the family rather than being sold and the relatives DEFINITELY did not need the paltry coin they got for them. That hurt, but I just can't imagine your pain in your circumstance. My sympathies. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Relatives go figure From: GUEST,999 Date: 13 Nov 12 - 06:03 PM Dan and Gnu, we choose our friends, not our relatives. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Relatives go figure From: gnu Date: 13 Nov 12 - 06:28 PM Hehehehe... O'Connell, Owens, 9... fookin Irish ring a bell? Maybe Cromwell was right? Fire up the spit and get out the BBQ sauce? Or are all relatives people? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Relatives go figure From: Bobert Date: 13 Nov 12 - 06:30 PM This stuff happens and it just doesn't make a lick of sense... The P-Vine's biological father died 2 months before she was born... He was training pilots for WW II and a lousy student killed the two of them... Anyway, the P-Vine's mother re-married and had two children by the 2nd husband... Well, seems that there was family silver from the P-Vine's biological father's family... Guess who got it??? Yup, one of the two step-siblings who has no ties at all to the P-Vine's biological father... I don't bring it up 'cause it gets the P-Vine torqued... B~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: Relatives go figure From: Gurney Date: 14 Nov 12 - 01:03 AM Some low-lifes here broke into the NZ Army museum and stole a host of medals, including VCs. They couldn't sell them, and filial pressure made them return them. And then they were caught. Good one. Bobert, a lady we know lost her mother and her father remarried. Then her father died and her step-mother remarried. The house once belonging to her parents was left (by her once stepmother) to the children of that stepmother from her original marriage, and our friend got no advantage whatsoever from what was once her parents house. Make your Will carefully, eh?. |
