here's my grandpa (mothers side). I love him so much. He's one of the strongest men I know. He's been through lots of heart attacks, but he just keeps on trucking. I love him tons and tons! anyways right now he's still in Puerto Rico, but my mom scanned his military pic with our new scanner so I wanted to share it. (my parents would prob. kick my *** if they knew I was posting this online). But I'm just very proud of him and wanted to show him off.

anyways here's my grandpa, I love him a bunch

Laura


[edit- we have censors for a reason, do not try to avoid them.]

i dont see a resemblance

:p

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Hmm... he sure looks familiar, for some reason.

Oh my god.... That's my father!

Guess he was making ******* children all over the planet.

cool, infantry.

Did I mention I love him lots?? well if not...I love him lots! anywho, the cross i'm always wearing in pictures was given to me by him and my grandma six years ago for my sweet 15 (my quinceanera) which is like a sweet 16 it's just a spanish tradition.

Anywho they bought it for me in Puerto Rico. At the time he was sick but he went out with my grandma to specifically chose that cross for me. I wear it all the time. I had it blessed by my priest and I try not to go anywhere without it. I tend to not even wear other necklaces if they clash with that cross because I dont like taking it off when I go out. It was just very special to me, and I always feel like I have him with me when I wear it. Anyways I love him, my other grandfather passed away some years back, so he's my only living grandfather, but he's always been the one i've been closest too.

He was here this past summer getting surgery. And I would drive my grandma back and forth to the hospital, and for the first time I actually saw her break down crying because she was so worried for him. I gave her a hug and told her it'd be ok, and that he's a strong man and that i'm sure he'll make it through, he's the one man i've never doubted would make it through things. This past summer my grandma and I became closer then we've ever been, I took her to disney and went shopping with her to distract her, and then would drive her to the hospital. i was really sad when they had to go back to Puerto Rico.

Anyways he's been getting older, and well we dont know how much time he has left. On my mom's bday in nov. we got a call on the phone, at first we thought it was about my grandfather, but turns out it was that my grandmothers sister had passed away. Anyways my mom broke down, (we were in church when we got the news) and when I hadnt heard who it was, my sister and I were so scared wondering if it was my grandfather or not, until my father told us, it was my mom's aunt. I just remember my heart dropping to the floor, I know my sister was worried too. Anyways, I just hope he stays for as long as he can, I love him so much. Anyways Imma stop getting mushy, it's jsut christmas and I got off the phonewith him earlier and well I just love him a lot. I'm off to sleep now. Night people

Laura

Do you have a blog?

Hey, your grandfather shot my grandfather during the war.

Hmm. Just discover you had a family? I have a family. They suck.

Does this mean I can make a random and pointless thread about them?

Go Infantry!

No, you know that GBK is your father.....


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CreateThing(Bill, Billghost);
Print("Oh no what is that?")
Teleportthing(Bill, Space);
Print("Puh that was close")
return

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end

Wow, I'm sure glad you're in the christmas spirit!

wow, you know. you all can attack me all you want. but dont attack a thread about my grandpa, that's just immature.

You wonder why I take such personal attacks against certain invdiviuals on this board. Excuse me for sharing. I'm a HUMAN I felt like SHARING, god forbid I do it on this board. It was xmas and I was thinking about him. Hell people post about gf problems, I cant share about caring about my grandpa? Damn this board is always talking about military stuff, excuse me for being proud of him. You all can be so damn rude sometimes. Derail all my other threads all you want, but dont talk **** in this one, have at least some respect for that.

later

Laura

Can everyone stop acting like such *******s towards BoricuaDelight? Is this too much to ask from people who are (on average) the intellectual cream of their respective populations?

come on its the festive season, get along or I'll shoot you with my staff weapon.

And show some respect.
Though I guess asking hateful angsty anti social teens to do that is kinda pointless

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Okay enough, just lay off her will ya guys honestly... I mean to start I was making fun of her for fun... but this is just getting brutal... even for my taste.

You know, the people in this community are like that, thats how they've always been and even Santa with a christmas miricle can't change that

My advice to you, not to be taken the wrong way mind you since I hardly know you and have no intention of scaring you off, would be to get a blog and build up your own community from that, or find one that's more willing to chat without the sarcastic and hurtful comments.

Your other option is to stick it out and not let other people draw you into making personal attacks against them. If you stay in the clear, you'll be fine and they wont. You'll find after you become less naive to the ways of this community people start to like you more. Well.. in theory, there are some people who will remain nameless (heh, just ask Agent_J) who have yet to adapt

No offense, but you forget, you posted a pic that says "Hey guys, this is my grandpa, he was in the army (pictar)"

Sorry, but this thread had no point to begin with. That's everyone's main gripe, and I agree with them--though they'd already said their peace, so I decided why should I bother. Now there are a LOT of pointless threads on massassi, don't get me wrong ("Post your...mom's perfume collection!"), but they at least have some reason for existing. This one was just a random spurt of...something (don't take that out of context) that, as others said, belonged on a blog or something similar. I'm not one to tell people on massassi that, but in this case it's true.

That said, many people do attack you for stupid reasons outside of this thread, but in this one case, I believe it somewhat justified.

Come on, people. This is the reason the discussion forum exists. If it was in one of the editing forums, then I can understand being an *******. But jesus, if you don't like the thread; why bother posting? If she ever decides to get a blog because noone posts on her threads about family and life and such, that's fine. But it's noones place here, except the moderators, to jump on her for making a post.

I may be guilty of acting like a mini-mod, but I've only done it when someone breaks a rule. You are just being jerks.

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apparently so.

I don't think those of you defending this thread really understand:

How am I supposed to respond to this thread? This is a discussion forum, right? What exactly are we discussing? I'm only saying, like Lecy mentioned, that this belongs on a blog. There's no real way to post on this thread without being sarcastic, or suggesting she find a different media for things like this. Not to mention, this is probably about the 3rd blog post BoricuaDelight's made that is completelly un-conversive. Not that it's a bad thing, I mean no disrespect. I simply think a blog would be a far better use of webspace for you.

JediKirby

She could use a blog, yes, but there's nothing wrong with these threads. There's douzens of threads active at any given time that aren't really open for discussion more than this. Even then, this is somewhat different. It's open for others to discuss their relatives, or relatives with military experience... in fact, we've had several of these threads before.

And laura, I must admit I'm somewhat glad to see you reacting. People have attacked you countless times before and all you seemed to do in response is say something innocent like "oh, if that's what you think, that's ok. I respect your opinion. :)" You have every right to be pissed off.

Did someone say pissed off?

Thanks to your grandfather for fighting for our freedom! I think if we had fight for our freedom like that again, I don't think we'd have enough men like that to do that. Tell your grandfahter thanks for me!

ah, yes. I forgot. Damn, probably gonna get my check from dave this month!

But we also have the right to react to completley innapropriate photographs that show to much skin (just about every photo of her posted), and useless threads that belong in a diary or a blog. her counter-retorts were 1. She has the right to bare as much skin as she wants, because she is 20 something years old. and 2. I should be respected for posting a blog post on forums, everyone treats me like crap.

All I have to say is

1. You don't have the right to show off skin to teenages, and more importantly it breaks these forums rules.

2. Don't give people a reason to complain and noone will complain.

I think the point everyone is making, is that we are sure your grandpa is a wonderful person, and we are all greatful for the work he did in the war, but there isn't anything to discuss in this thread. Noone here knows your grandfather, noone can talk about him or anything he's done. Except for you. Thats why everyone is suggesting a blog.

I really don't see what the deal is with her showing a bit of skin in her pics. In summer you see girls walking by barely wearing anything. Do you frequently walk up to them and make a huge deal out of it?