Today this world became a darker place for everyone in it.
Today at around 7 this morning my grandfather died taking all his amazing life's experience with him. He did not have a cryonics contract. He was not alone at all for the last week
He was born to Russian parents in coal country in Pennsylvania. His father was a coal miner, but after one summer's work in the coal mines as a teenager my grandfather decided it was not for him(his father didn't have a shred of problem with this). He didn't go to college but he worked as an engineer on aircraft nonetheless. Because of this in the beginning of world war II before the US had entered the war he was selected to be part of a secret unit in north Africa that repaired and constructed aircraft for the British while constantly having to flee before Rommel, The Desert Fox. At the end of the war he was trained to be in the counter intelligence core, and at the end of the war he tracked down Nazi commanders and generals to face justice before the tribunal. I remember one story he told me of one general he was taking in. He told me he this general was very polite, and had only one concern, his 15 year old daughter. He wanted to make sure she was not hurt by the allied soldiers, to this effect my grandfather looked after her.
After he came back home he married my grandmother. He worked hard his whole life, and he later bought much of the mountain in PA that his family originally lived on. He has 4 children, 10 grandchildren, and 6 great grand children. He was a very wise and a very strong man, and at the end his wits were about him. He was never religious, but had accepted his fate long ago before.
As I said the world is a darker place.
