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Dear...
How shall I call you? Granddad?
We never really talked. You knew things, saw a lot and even mentioned it but... well, your wife said it was nothing. She told you she knew what she did after all she was a midwife.
I wonder, I really wonder how you felt about that.
Did you fight it, looked for proof or simply let it go because it was not of your business?
You survived the war, the Japanese concentration camp and was not looking for trouble but... you are an army man, a soldier. They say the army fights for what is right. Right?
Did you? Did you fight for what is right or was shrugging your shoulders easier for you? You never stayed, left, you had to work, fight for the right of others, somewhere overseas. Did you forget you had a family or was it easier this way?
Do you remember that day?
Father's day 1966?
What happened after you had dinner and decided to lay down for a while?
What was it that finally ate you? Was it the food, the cold rice? Were those memories too much for you? Did you suffer from some injuries, was it impossible to get those thoughts out of your mind or was it the fat spoiled kid at your side that wanted you dead?
I know, I know the one who stood at my bed wasn't you. For all those years you didn't care and we're... busy.
You should know he was a great friend to me and waited. He always waited and to me, it felt as if he watched over me.
It is over a year now I visited you.
The last time was as granny was still alive. She cleaned up everything, brought flowers. I intended to see her but you didn't let me talk to her. There was something you needed to tell me and you were the only one I paid attention too.
It took me long to find you. It was on a cold windy day. A day like today. The only thing I wonder about now is if life would have been different if you sticked around. Would you have made a difference?
Your granddaughter Kitty.
02-05-2020
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I wish I understood what you mean by this. 🤔
There is no need to be brave if it comes to this.
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I was never close to any of my grandparents, at all. I knew them but, like you, I never knew what to call them. Family is a funny thing, isn't it, all full of all sorts of contradictions and unknowns.
Very touching letter.
@wwwiebe My grandfather died as I was young and was seldom at home. He was in the army and stayed after he survived the Japanese concentration camp. I always liked my granny. She cared and who knows too because I didn't like the other one and I am named after her.
She told me a lot, was more like a mother to me but never told about what happened in the camp or her life before she came to the Netherlands.
As I went to the graveyard to see her it was mainly my grandfather who seemed to speak to me. I still find that weird.