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When my sister Ann was born, they lost our mother because they gave her the wrong blood at the time. They gave my dad his calling up papers to go in the army, the war was just starting. At the time, Ann was six weeks old and there was another three of us and he had to settle us all with somebody. My grandmother took us in, my dad was shipped out to India and we never saw him for 4 陆 years.
My grandmother was our hero, we thanked her, but if we could see her again, we鈥檇 really like to thank her, because she鈥檇 raised nine children of her own and took four babies in.
It was really hard for my dad, he was grieving; he鈥檇 lost his wife and he had to go to war and leave the four of us. I can remember him coming home, we were standing on my grandmothers doorstep, and she said 鈥淚s that Frank? It is him!鈥� He was walking down the street with his kit bag on his shoulder and he came in, we all hid behind my grandmother鈥檚 apron. He went into the pantry and took his kit bag off. I can remember peeping around the pantry door saying to him 鈥淎re you our dad?鈥� And he said 鈥淵es, I am and I鈥檓 never going to leave you again.鈥� And he never did, he was a great dad. He died at the age of forty-nine through injuries he鈥檇 sustained during the war. He was a really great guy.

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