Saw the post asking people for mising their plane stories and made me wonder if peoples lives where saved by missing some event so here I am asking

  • swiffswaffplop@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Not me personally, but my grandpa was transferred out of Pearl Harbor a week before the attack. I often think about how some random person’s decision that many years ago created my entire family line.

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      1 year ago

      My grandad was on the HMS Arethusa playing poker with shipmates in WW2, went to the toilet on another part of the ship just as it was bombed. All the other poker players he left were killed.
      I also sometimes think about how my grandad’s bowel movements creating my entire family line.

    • TheButtonJustSpins
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      1 year ago

      My grandfather was slated to go defend a town from the Nazis, but a tank rolled over his leg so he couldn’t go. Everyone in that town was wiped out.