Would you be willing to post a serious post about something you deeply treasure ?

I want to share with you something I treasure

My Uncle Paul was in the Vietnam war ( or whatever you choose to see it as )

There he saved the lives of 3 of his group when a bomb exploded on them
There he also held his best friend as he died for America

He was awarded the Purple Heart and today still walks this life with pieces of steel deep in his bones and tissues.

When he came home I was very young and he was in his young 20's and I remember one time outside ... in our yard a plane from Detroit Airport flew by and Paul hit the deck and crawled for cover ... a reflex I am guessing and something I will never forget

Later in life in my teens i spent every summer on his farm in Montana and we grew to be grand friends ... when i was 14 he gifted me with something he carried with him each day in Vietnam ... at 42 now I still treasure my gift ( photos just taken on my deck )









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that's deep

cborgman said:

do you have something treasured ?




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Mach said:

i had the soap you made, but it got used up.

othe than that, not really. i dont talk to 90% of my family due to numerous problems in the past, so i have nothing handed down

cborgman said:

I am deeply honored you treasured the soap

Mach said:

it made my mornings for a long time.

My uncle (who was also my godfather), had Cerebral Palsy all his life. His mother, my grandmother, was told that he wouldn't live to the age of five and that she should just have him institutionalized. This was in the 1940s. My Nana told them to go fry their asses and that she was taking her son home.

She raised him with very little help and he grew into an incredible man. He couldn't walk or speak clearly, but he had a fantastic sense of humor, was incredibly loving, and loved books. He would listen to books on record and tape, and my dad would read to him all the time. I grew up living in the same house as him, and I would sit with him and listen.

His favorite was Lord Of The Rings. He had a gorgeous red leather, gold-embossed edition with all three books, plus appendices and fold-out maps. When he died (I was with him, holding his hand, as he took his last breaths - man, I was 18, pregnant and so scared!) I inherited that book. It's one of the only material things I really, really treasure.



He's still with me at all times. My mother knew what she was doing when she made him my Godfather! He looks out for me in ways that I only know the half of.

FunkMistress said:

beautiful ... thank you so much for sharing

Mach said:

Thanks for making me think of it. Great thread.

FunkMistress said:

Thats awesome Mach.
Thanks for sharing.

When I was little my Dad had to be seperated from us during Desert storm. We came back to the States and he stayed for work.

Anyway, he got me a gold bracelet, nothing special to look at, but it had a knot tied in it, (a square knot) and he said that that knot was like our friendship. It could never be untied or come loose.

I still have it but the clasp broke and it's been like 3 years and my dumb ass husband still has not got it fixed for me.

I'm gonna get on his case about it rite now!
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My Grandfather when i was about 17 he took me upstairs and said "imgoing to give you something" and he gave me his Zoot suit... the same suit he met my grandmother in. yes folks with the neat pleat and ruff cuff. i tried it on.. and he said " slide me some skin Jackson" sadly this suit burned in a fire. and i'll never see that suit again.

FunkMistress said:

That is so beautiful...you.

Beautiful Mach. Incredible how life events unfold... and how we come to treasure parts of time we truly have no idea about... but gain through people we love. Then again, we know exactly how life events unfold... and hold on tight to the moments we have, had and will always remember.

I have many...

luv4all7 said:

~smiles~ very nice ...thank you for sharing both my brothers were in Desert Storm also

Heres a pic.

See. BROKE.

luv4all7 said:

I would be crying in your case.

Finess said:

oh WOW ... thats awesome so sorry you lost the gift but it's forever yours in spirit

Freespirit said:

my beautiful soul sister ... life is such a magical trip




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luv4all7 said:

beautiful

actually there's one other thing when i was about ohhhhh... 2 or 3, the song "Crystal Blue persuasion" came out. and i loved that song so much my mom ran out and bought it. and gave it to me, it was one of the 1st 45's i ever held inmy hand and it was then i knoew i wanted to be a dj. that 45 is still sitting in the bronx, sealed and hasnt been touched since i did.

luv4all7 said:

It says "breast."

Freespirit said:

I'm outta tears honey. Now I laugh!

Freespirit said:

I smile about him much more often than I cry.

my memories.

I guess this qualifies...

Back when I was going through the final stages of the ending of my marriage, there was a LOT of stress, confusion, hurt, anger, misunderstanding, tears...everything. I was most concerned on how it was effecting my daughter, and my relationship with her. I pretty much knew that whatever hurt she was going through would be blamed in her mind on me...and I can't say I wouldn't have blamed her.

One night during this time after my ex-wife and I had finished yet another long emotional discussion, my 9 year old daughter came up to me and handed me a strip of masking tape...she had written on it with a pen and then with a black Sharpie...and on it, it said this:

"Your cool! Your fun! Your nice! Your not someone who is hateful! You love me!"

I couldn't believe the depth of love and forgiveness in her little heart...it effected me deeply, and still does. I gave her the longest, most loving hug I've ever given another person in my life......To this day I still mark that moment as a turning point in guaranteeing that the relationship she and I have will always be healthy, loving and strong...that she did not doubt--and never would again--that I loved her.

I immediately put the tape across my computer monitor, so that it's always there reminding me of that moment...

FunkMistress said:

Byron said:

That's beautiful, man.

Byron, that is incredibly beautiful.