RE: On the subject of casual gaming
well yeah family is great !!! if i have to look back on my dads side we've been warriors since ever there was an army it seems :) great grand dads boat got stuck in the ice and he couldn't deliver the goods guns powder canons i heard a few years ago they found the boat of the coast https://www.actualites.uqam.ca/2016/un-etudiant-identifie-une-epave-datant-de-1754-en-remontant-la-piste-de-son-ancetre. There have been many princesses married into the family also . my dad was a merchant marine and decided one day enough much to the dismay of grand dad by breaking tradition and not going into the military as a career cause that's what we do right? the joke was when they call your name the military whole platoon said oui monsieur !!! so my dad decided to travel i can understand why your grand dad went off to war for illusions of victory , money and grandeur cause there really were no jobs tough choices and everybody was broke at that time my dad always reminds me he had no shoes to go to school but these guys were tough mfs.
growing up i played with their helmets, guns, bayonets, gas masks as a matter of fact i managed t hold on to a few old WWII military ordnance boxes for keep sake :))) I came close to enlisting too cause after scouts ended i had more badges, pins, and chains than the 40 guys in my troop, but became a hippy instead grew long hair bought a guitar started smoking stuff but had a serious job the whole time. I think my dad was taken by surprise when he found out i was almost making twice his salary on my first job on a electrical assembly line worker put him into questioning a lot of things. He should have stayed out west he came back here met up with his family who were supposed to help and ended up breaking down . here in the city just about everyone had at least grade school with a high school diploma you could be a teacher so my dad had only the second grade since they sent him out digging potatoes and stuff on the farm was more important he never had a chance here but he did manage.
and he did teach himself eventually all those years reading the newspaper just looking at the pictures :)))