Grandfathers

In our modern, high-tech world, it’s also easy to forget how primitive the war fought by our grandfathers and great-grandfathers was just a century ago.

And, anyway, what sort of new Macedonian nation can this be when we and our fathers and grandfathers and great-grandfathers have always been called Bulgarians?

Again, it is my greatest honor to work for a president who is committed to our veterans, our military families, including our beloved uncles and fathers, grandfathers, aunties, moms and grandmas.

Most were not young men, but perhaps their fathers, grandfathers, uncles or aunts.

Our fathers and grandfathers vanquished fascism through immense efforts and huge sacrifices during the Great Patriotic War and then rebuilt the destroyed economy together.

She was preceded in death by two grandfathers, John McCullough and Harold Green.

Gilmore said she found it unbelievable that her grandfathers fought against each other at Horseshoe Bend.

Her party then was just another version of our grandfathers conservatives and she is now turning her current one into that as well.

He states that "every single member of my marae is descended from one of two of my great-great-grandfathers".

In June 2023, he said of one drug gang that had abducted 14 police officers: "I'm going to tell on you to your fathers and grandfathers," suggesting they should get a good spanking.

It is the land of our fathers, our grandfathers, and it will remain ours.

Jovan was preceded in death by his great-grandfathers Joseph Baker Sr. and Joseph Young Sr., and his godfather Toby DeSales Clyburn.

First of all came cultivation, beginning with the man with the spade and pick… We saw the genuine old wooden plough of our great-grandfathers….

Here in Belgium, at the Russian Mission to the EU we had a small event yesterday (5 May) with people joining the Immortal Regiment initiative with portraits of their fathers, grand- and great-grandfathers who fought in the war.

He wore a midnight navy blue pin dot tuxedo with Giuseppe Zanotti’s Lewis cup crystal embellished black suede loafers, his grandfathers gold cuff links, and a Z-Blue Dial Milgauss Rolex watch, given to him by the bride on their wedding day.

I guess Brock Turner, Brett Kavanaugh, Bill Cosby, the fathers, step-fathers, grandfathers, cousins, uncles, and family friends women have told me held them down as children and later said it was just a game.

I never knew my grandfathers.

It isn’t because of skin color or oppression of their great-grandfathers, but because they haven’t stuck to the middle-class values which led the US to its capitalist success.

It was, at times, a little like watching two grandfathers argue over the dinner table about who's going to carve the turkey.

They've inherited these traditions from their forefathers, grandmothers and grandfathers.