{"id":129877,"date":"2022-08-27T12:56:45","date_gmt":"2022-08-27T16:56:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=129877"},"modified":"2022-08-27T12:56:45","modified_gmt":"2022-08-27T16:56:45","slug":"things-have-changed-a-lot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=129877","title":{"rendered":"Things have changed a lot"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Nowadays, people share\/blab about EVERYTHING\u00a0 personal. Before someone ever even meets someone, they have probably seen multiple pictures, know their sexual orientation and history, their politics, and every intimate thought. Didn’t used to be that way. When my Grandma delivered my dad, the doc asked for a name. Finding none had been chosen, he said “how about after your husband?” who was known as either Charles or C.L.\u00a0 Sounded good to Grandma…but she never knew what the L stood for! They were busy folks, and it hadn’t come up. The doc asked “Maybe Louis?” and Grandma said “Maybe. Sure…” so Dad wound up named Charles Louis after his father, Charles Larkin.<\/p>\n

Didn’t hurt him any…as a Reservist, he was activated 8 December 1941 and didn’t return home until during the Occupation. He kept busy in the interim in Coast Artillery, worked on the project linking radar altitude-ranging to anti-air guns (so all you duck-hunters cursing a balky radar now know whom to blame), commanded an artillery battalion with Patton north to the Bulge and afterwards eastwards to Dachau on liberation day, and eventually retired as an LTC with a Bronze Star to his credit. After a successful business career, he and Mom are both at Arlington together, like they were for 60 years before that. Today would have been his 106th birthday. Happy Birthday, Dad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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