My Nan has passed away

Earl Hafler · April 4, 2008

98 years old. Just five short of the century, as Beckham might say. It's been coming for a few years but because they've been there your whole life, there's a thought in your head that it will always be so, even though you know it's impossible.

Bloody amazing woman, as most of that generation were. My other nan passed away 8 years ago.

Anyway, i was thinking how sad it will be when the last of her kind go. The men and women who got us through two world wars and who brought up our parents. You look at the world today and realise that bit by bit, authority and respect are being chipped away.

Did they really fight that hard so that kids today kill people who pass them in the street and ask them to quieten down, or hurl abuse at them on the train because the mobile phone is being used as a stereo ?

April 4, 2008

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