• Aeao@lemmy.world
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    14 hours ago

    My grandad was told he’d have to give back his electric wheelchair due to some change in insurance.

    He was like “let me know what day, so I can have the news here as your tip a 100 year old ww2 veteran out of his wheelchair”

    They let him keep the chair.

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        6 minutes ago

        He was a tough old man. He had all the patience in the world for us kids but none for adults who should know better.

        His mom died in the dust bowl… from dust inhalation. Then he went to Italy to fight facists. Then came home and joined the board of health and helped develop the rabbis vaccine they could put in meat and drop from planes. He’s the reason you never had to worry about getting rabbis in America.

        Try he think they’re going to take his wheelchair? Come and take it!

        Oh he also had his name legally changed so he wouldn’t be named after Robert E Lee anymore. He wasn’t a fan of slavery. He also wasn’t a fan of baby boomers. Called them “the me me me generation “