Guns Fired
Rural Transylvania, 1910. A gun fired: One child maimed; One child entered a depression-fueled starvation he never exited; One child, my maternal grandfather, stood witness.
Philippines, 1945. A gun fired: One soldier cleaning his rifle; One soldier entered a hospital he never exited; His brother, my paternal grandfather, stood Kaddish.
Neither event changed my DNA, but both influenced how I was raised, who I became.
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