After dinner my grandmother lit a cigarette and my grandfather poured three glasses of homemade black currant vodka.
My father was at it and my grandfather and his father before him.
Emil and my grandfather were both born in Kansas about the same time, both were raised in small towns outside of Wichita.
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When the depression hit, the jobs dried up and my grandfather went home, but he had dreams for his own children, who came to America several decades later.
The front room of the shop had been filled with the smell of meat, and my grandfather had stood and looked around at the hams and sausages hanging from the rafters, soup bones and square bacon slabs in the cold counter window, the skinned red lamb with its sharp little teeth lying on the block while Luka cleaved the bone of the leg away.
Despite the challenges our ocean faces, I believe it's time to recapture the sense of wonder and inspiration my grandfather and father felt when they gazed on its surface.
My grandfather and my great-grandfather both served in the Navy during World War II which likely explains why both of my brothers are also Navy men (though one is now retired from the military).
He joined a plethora of family members who served, including my grandfather and great-grandfather, a bunch of uncles and cousins and my father-in-law.
When I think about America, I think about my family, and I think about my grandfather who fought in World War II, and my grandmother, who, even with a baby, was working on a bomber assembly line.
And when my grandfather came back home, he got the opportunity to go to college because of the GI Bill.
My genetic heritage had flaws: My father had a triple bypass at age 66 and my maternal grandfather died of a heart attack at age 56.
And she lived in Hawaii, and after my grandfather passed away, she had the same little apartment she had had when I had been growing up over there.
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He was also a family man and my father, a grandfather and a great-grandfather.
Groups like Echo Taps strive to remind us, and make sure the notes of freedom are played, heard and echoed from generation to generation, they way my grandfather and father taught me.
And, as my grandfather preferred, they go well on the floor too.
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And certainly not my grandfather himself, the smiling watchman of my earliest memories, the quiet, black-eyed, slender man who held my hand as we crossed the avenues, who sat on a park bench reading his Russian newspaper while I chased pigeons and harassed sugar ants with broken twigs.
It's been overwhelming at times, but I thank God every day that my son is getting to know his grandfather, and that my mom has been here with me to teach me how to be a better mom.
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"My grandfather and grandmother were whipped and beaten, and had the scars to prove it, " he said.
And later, inside my grandfather's house, I pushed open the shutters of a window, finely latticed with woodworm.
"My grandfather and his brothers decided to leave Homs for Buenos Aires in the hope of finding a better future for their families, " he says.
In the 20th Century, my grandfather and my father carried on that tradition and made their beers known and respected and successful around the world.
So I have one conversation on e-mail with my grandfather and another with my cousin on SMS and all these things don't work the same way.
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It's just for fun, for both my grandfather and me.
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And until my grandmother passed away at 12, that is when my mother came back, came to get me because I had nothing but my grandfather there in the house and my mother wanted me to be with her.
"I've been thinking a lot about fathers and sons in the course of this, and I'd like to accept this in the memory of my grandfather, Michael Balcon, my father, Cecil Day-Lewis, and my three fine boys, Gabriel, Ronan and Cashel, " he added.
For the first time in my life I heard my grandfather curse and speak openly about sex.
But credit is also due to the magazine's male leaders--notably my grandfather Malcolm Forbes and editor Jim Michaels--who deeply embraced innovation, whatever the source.
But I looked down at this song and I thought, this is my grandfather's letter to my grandmother, just letting her know that it's OK to let go and that he's waiting for her.
Even if I am on the other side of the world from the farmhouse I live in, I still dream of the ancient vines out the window, and the shed out back that my grandfather's father built in 1870 with eucalyptus trunks.
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