01/23/25 Grif.Net -How's That Again?
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My daughter and I were proud of our family lineage. She traced it back in one line to two generations before Charlemagne in France. Another line was among the early immigrants to America, fleeing the English Civil War in the 1640’s. Our ancestors included soldiers, settlers, senators, scholars, secretaries, and stockbrokers.
We decided to compile a family history, a legacy for coming generations. Sadly, we had a problem with two ‘black sheep’ of the family -- George, who was executed in the electric chair for murder and Sam, who was hanged for rustling cattle in Wyoming.
She assured me that she could handle their short biographies tactfully.
Later, when I looked at her ideas, I was pleased to read that old Sam died "taking part in a public function when the platform suddenly gave way."
And as for great-uncle George, he "occupied a chair of applied electronics at an important government institution, was attached to his position by the strongest of ties, and his death came as a great shock."
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Dr Bob Griffin
"Jesus Knows Me, This I Love!"
