Anyone want a captive audience?

[Apple]

Ok guys, do you often tell stories to the point where your family rolls their eyes, do you like to tell the young'ns about what your time was like during the military or the war, do you tend to ramble on and on, do you have a bunch of humorous stories you want to tell???

I have a 13 year old son that loves history and is a big military/war history fan. Unfortunately, Grampa was never in the military (although he was a cop/sheriff for many years, so DS hears those stories). I've wanted to take DS to the veteran's home to play chess with the residents, but he takes loss extremely hard so I don't know if I should do that. But he loves listening to stories. He's an avid reader and can go on and on about anything history. He's a good kid, gets along extremely well with adults and can hold his own in an intellegent conversation.

If this sounds like a kid you would want to tell your stories to, he'd love to hear them. Just PM me and send me your email address ("fake" ones are fine if you want to stay annonymous) and I'll help him make contact.

Please keep in mind, he is 13 and is kind of a "good Christian kid" so I'd appreciate it if there wasn't a lot of cussing, vulgarity or sex. The violence that goes with war is fine, just not too graphic, please (lol, yes, I'm republican, I'd rather have violence than sex...) He has seen Band of Brothers (he bought me a video of the first half of the series at a garage sale he went to with his uncle a few years ago because he knew I liked it and I'd be in bed a lot after surgery--I've since bought the whole thing on DVD) and I'm pretty sure he's seen Saving Private Ryan so that may give you an idea of what I will expose him to so far. We do plan on going to Europe on a WWII tour after the house is built, so if you have stories about places chances are he might get to see them some day. Even if they are not your own stories, but those of your father/mother whatever, it would be cool to hear them.

Anyway, let me know. I like the stories too, so I'll be reading them as well, but I like the idea of him reading stories from people he can then send questions to. If the story seems a little too "adult" I might just set them aside and have him read them as he's older. (lol, I'm getting visions of Stephen King's short story here for some reason, but I don't think DS would turn into that...I'm the horror fan in this family)

TYIA!

[❤ mollymouser ❤]

Very cool. If he ever wants to chat with a military pilot, let me know

[handyman2]

Sorry other than boot it is hard to talk about hell. You may find many who prefer not to dredge up what actual combat is really like. They internilize much of it. Once you have been there you don't want to remember. My dad was in the bulge and would never talk about it. later I understood why.
Best to stay with the history books for the young fellow.

[Apple]

Jan 9, 2011 21:11:25 GMT -5 handyman2 said:

Sorry other than boot it is hard to talk about hell. You may find many who prefer not to dredge up what actual combat is really like. They internilize much of it. Once you have been there you don't want to remember. My dad was in the bulge and would never talk about it. later I understood why.
Best to stay with the history books for the young fellow.

Fully understand. My Grampa was in WWII and wouldn't talk about it, can't blame him. We do know that the men who served under him considered him to be the only reason they lived--they told my dad that when they came to the house looking for Grampa. He wasn't home, dad was a teen, so they told him to pass along their thank yous.

Some can talk, some can't. But those that can it's worth it to listen to them, true history gets lost without them.