tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20471270.post2198782383799290523..comments2023-05-13T12:42:00.360+01:00Comments on PamBG's Blog: Crabbit Old WomanPamBGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11324370506889227234noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20471270.post-60954953370335250902008-11-21T16:52:00.000+00:002008-11-21T16:52:00.000+00:00Anonymous, thank you very much for sharing your st...Anonymous, thank you very much for sharing your story and I'm glad to hear that you got so much out of the poem.PamBGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11324370506889227234noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20471270.post-24351382929612748302008-11-18T18:07:00.000+00:002008-11-18T18:07:00.000+00:00Hello i have had to read this for drama, I find th...Hello i have had to read this for drama, I find this a poem which i can relate to because it really corroberates with the story of my grand father, he was a at a stage were he did not even remember his own sons name. At my grandmothers birthday party though, he only remembered my granmas name and mine. The next day he died, it was very sad to think how he had remembered me, and when i said goodbye to him he was being fed and put to bed by a nurse, i looked in his eyes and knew everything he had done, and how he hated being treated like a child. It really upsets me to know that when he closed his eyes as I was there, it was the last time he would close his eyes.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20471270.post-52017278204239977742008-01-14T02:30:00.000+00:002008-01-14T02:30:00.000+00:00I deeply appreciate posts such as this one, which ...I deeply appreciate posts such as this one, which show honor, respect and value to the elderly and their stories.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20471270.post-43618254440537585222008-01-13T20:58:00.000+00:002008-01-13T20:58:00.000+00:00Thanks for that story, Paul.Tony, your post remind...Thanks for that story, Paul.<BR/><BR/>Tony, your post reminded me that my father's cousin (who would have been born about 1920) was one of the first people working with computers in the Pentagon during WWII. <BR/><BR/>He was 'running numbers'(there was no legal betting in the States back then) in Pittsburgh; a bit of an Italian-American 'hood'. I'm not sure how he ended up in the Pentagon, but it was due to his innate talent with numbers.<BR/><BR/>I remember him telling us that the first computers he used had vacuum transistors.PamBGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11324370506889227234noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20471270.post-65482057142744072732008-01-13T20:37:00.000+00:002008-01-13T20:37:00.000+00:00When living on the Isle of Man, one of my roles wa...When living on the Isle of Man, one of my roles was an involvement with a ward for people with dementia problems at the nearby cottage hospital. I'll never forget how for one man who was way down the line so to speak, the nurses arranged a display of a significant event in his life alongside his birthday party to which his family and a few others such as me were invited. It turned out that this now very confused man had been instrumental in saving the lives of over 30 people on boat which went down of the island back in the 1940s. So many of our older folk have great stories behind them. They sure merit our respect.Rev Paul Martinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05294221174324852637noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20471270.post-83553690090739055972008-01-13T09:22:00.000+00:002008-01-13T09:22:00.000+00:00PS - I can spell global. And I wasn't trying to t...PS - I can spell global. And I wasn't trying to type ventriloqually (is that a word?). Pity Blogger doesn't let you correct your typos...<BR/>(wanders off muttering ...)Rev Tony Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09248241050776947372noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20471270.post-50999385663172785392008-01-13T09:19:00.000+00:002008-01-13T09:19:00.000+00:00I long ago realised that old folk not only used to...I long ago realised that old folk not only used to be young folk, but are the young folk who survived world wars and glogal depression, and together achieved the world which we inherited. One day I was talking to the husband of a lady I was to bury, and he told me he'd been a mathematician, and when war broke out he'd volunteered and been sent to a place "you weren't have heard of it" - Bletchley Park. I said "Enigma?" and his face lit up. He was thrilled that someone knew what he'd done (this was before the movie, and very few people had heard of the code-breakers) and I was thrilled to be talking to one of the folk who really did win the war.<BR/><BR/>Most old folk have been there, done that, and got a drawer full of T-shirts. And great stories to tell!Rev Tony Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09248241050776947372noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20471270.post-82567235056960297182008-01-12T11:23:00.000+00:002008-01-12T11:23:00.000+00:00Thank you for posting this Pam- it speaks volumes ...Thank you for posting this Pam- it speaks volumes to me...Sallyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01759963926280667938noreply@blogger.com