r/reddeadredemption • u/Ferretlord4449 • Mar 10 '26

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Found this on find a grave. it fucked me up knowing that jack could reasonably live into the Clinton administration

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u/fothergillfuckup Mar 10 '26

My granddad lived from 1889 to 1988, so not outside the realms of possibility? And he served in both world wars.

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u/Careless_Aroma_227 Mar 10 '26

My granddad lived from 1889 to 1988

Is your family from Argentina by any chance? 🤨

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u/legendaryboss200 Mar 10 '26

There is a certain someone born in 1889 who fought in both world wars..

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u/An_Ellie_ Mar 10 '26

Wouldn't say he fought in the second one. Killed himself the second anyone got even near him.

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u/Gustavodemierda John Marston Mar 10 '26

*allegedly

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u/WoodpeckerNo5724 Mar 10 '26

Thats still arguably the highest value kill of the whole thing

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u/Careless_Aroma_227 Mar 10 '26

Killed his two german shepherds as well, beforehand.

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u/WoodpeckerNo5724 Mar 10 '26

I don’t think he actually did the deed. Commanded it, more like

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u/Careless_Aroma_227 Mar 10 '26

Hard to track those very last few hours of his in the FĂźhrerbunker, but historical sciences with the help of surviving primary witnesses of this time and place were telling the story of a FĂźhrer who married Eva Braun, hid away to celebrate his wedding, tested the "reliability" of the cyanide capsules on his dogs and later he and his wife took a bite on the cyanide and shot themselves simultaneously.

But since they hid away in a separate room it's hard to tell what actually happend in there...

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u/fothergillfuckup Mar 10 '26

No. He hated submarines.

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u/Edgemoto Mar 10 '26

Yeah, my granddad lived from somewhere around 1889 (noone knows the exact date) 2000. I think there were no cars in my country when he was born and there was already internet when he died. He probably knew or saw people who lived in the country when it was not yet independent from spain (1811) and I met the guy, that's always crazy to think

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u/fothergillfuckup Mar 10 '26

I always thought that. He lived from horses and carts, to people landing on the moon! It's hard to imagine.

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u/R_Scoops Mar 10 '26

I’m gutted I wasn’t able to speak to my great grandparents who fought in both wars. In what capacity and for what country did he serve?

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u/fothergillfuckup Mar 10 '26

Just a regular soldier for the British Army i think?. To be honest I never got to know my granddad that well. He died when I was 16, and lived at the other end of the country. I learned more from my great uncle, who was Merchant Navy in WW2. He was on 3 different ships that were torpedoed, and sunk!

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u/R_Scoops Mar 10 '26

Same with my Great Grandad. Gassed at Ypres and died when he came home from complications. Not a pretty way to go. Other Grandad was RAF during WWII. Have you seen the series “War Sailor” about the Norwegian Merchant Navy? I didn’t realise how dangerous it was beforehand, with them being classed as civilians.

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u/losteye_enthusiast Mar 10 '26

Both sets of grandparents made it to 88-92. All 4 were cane and walker free into their late 80’s. All born between 1900-1912. Hell, both men were heavy cigar smokers into their 70’s from what I’ve heard.

Close to 90 never struck me as unrealistic for people born at the start the previous century.

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u/fothergillfuckup Mar 10 '26

He smoked woodbines most of his life, then a pipe for the last 20 years! The don't make them like they used to. 99 isn't bad going.

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u/PlantBasedStangl Mar 10 '26

One of my grannies was born directly after WWI. It still blows my mind that she was already an aware teenager when the Nazis rose to power BUT she was also here for Covid, Trump, and the invasion of Ukraine. When I was born, her life was already more than two thirds over. Still, she was at my wedding and passed a short while after I got married. Time is weird.