My grandfather

My grandfather was one of the most influential people in my life. Sadly we lost him to lung cancer at the age of 86 back in February of 2012. In his life time he did amazing things from growing up homeless, living out of a car, and picking cotton for a living to navigating a B23 bomber in world war 2. His stories about his life are some of the most fondest memories I have from my childhood. I remember one time he told me that when he was a boy he and his family would lay out under the stars, because they had no home, and sleep the night in the cotton fields. It was this that sparked his love for astronomy and eventually led him to be a navigator. His love for astronomy was contagious and it sparked a passion for it in me as well. My grandfather was an amazing man and I’ll never forget the impact he had on my life.

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