A SpongeBob Greeting

This past Saturday Hubs celebrated his birthday. In a sealed envelope from miles away came this little mellow yellow fellow with wishes for a happy birthday from his two sweet granddaughters, Lily and Lucy.

As you can see their Mommy traced their little hands inside the card and Lily 'wrote' her message for Grandpa.

Grandpa got many cards for his birthday but he sat and looked at this one the longest.

Lily and Lucy - Grandpa loves you too!

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An American Hero

This is my Grandpa Charlie. Grandpa was a soldier in WWII. He was fighting the enemy and was hit by shrapnel that nearly blinded him for life. Luckily the doctors were able to save his eyes but he wore glasses the rest of his life. In his later years he more often than not looked at you over the rims of those glasses rather than through them.

His favorite past-time was fishing. As you can tell from the photo above he was pretty good at it too. He had lots of favorite places to go. I don't know where this huge fish was caught. At the time of the photo I was all of about four years old. He took my brother and I fishing with him many times when we were older.

Grandpa always wanted to live to be 100 years old. He died in 1985 at the age of 92. My Mom and I took flowers to his grave last week in honor of Memorial Day. I also took a flag - he deserved it. Thanks Grandpa for being an American Hero and for being one of mine too. I miss you Pap.