Re: Reflections on eating and will power and the men in my life OT

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Eleanora Thank you SO MUCH for sharing this with us. Very good food for thought.

Kim

-- Reflections on eating and will power and the men in my life OT

I spent time today thinking of my uncles and father and grandfathers and all who serve and served. I started remembering stories they told me as a child about their survival over seas during war times.I remembered my Uncle Harvey telling me about digging for turnips in the frozen ground in January way behind enemy lines. And how he felt he could take on the world after such a meal.I remembered my Dad telling me about when they liberated a concentration camp. He was atop his tank with binoculars and through them he saw what he thought were rags hangin on a wire fence. When they got closer it was a woman, so thin and ragged. And dammed if she wasn't cheering for them!I remember my grandfather talking about being shot while handing out chocolate to children in a town they were liberating. He could not understand why people would shoot someone feeding children.The one thing these men had in common, is they each faced hardships, yet they were astonished at the hardships others endured. They each went hungry at times, yet continued on. And every one of them was thankful for what they had.Thinking of them today, has made me more thankful for what we have now. It has also made me realize that we can meet the challenge to get healthier. WE can make momentary sacrifices, we can rise above our personal challenges in life. And it begins with being thankful. It continues with absoulte conviction and perserverance through hardship. It ends in victory.I will learn to be thankful for the fact that we have water to drink. I will learn to be thankful for the fact that we have healthy food to choose from.I will learn to be thankful that we have the opportunity to get healthy and stop whining about having to do an exercise session before I have lunch. Hell, I get lunch and I don't have to dig it out of the frozen ground or get shot at while having it.I will remember them and try very hard to do better. Starting now.YOu have a restful night gals, you is gonna need it!Love eleanora

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Gretchen Sounds like your Grandfather was a very strong and wonderful man just like Eleanora's family. You both have a lot to be proud of. I to hope that my grandchildren will remember me as a wonderful person who had LOTS of energy for an old lady .

Kim

-- Re: Reflections on eating and will power and the men in my life OT

Elenora, what a beautifully written post you wrote. You've reminded me of my Grandfather who spent 18 months in a japanese prison camp. He never spoke of it. I only learned of it a few years agos, and many years after his death. We are priviledged to live in a time and countries that allow the freedoms that we hold dear. As I think of my grandfather I think of a simple man who faced fear head on and lived to have a peaceful and fulfilled life. I hope years from now my grandchildren think of me as someone to be proud of and look up to, rather than wonder who I was because I died to young. Gretchen

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my great uncle was a prisoner of war for 4 years in WW2, he was in the "Death mach of Baton"

Reflections on eating and will power and the men in my life OT

I spent time today thinking of my uncles and father and grandfathers and all who serve and served. I started remembering stories they told me as a child about their survival over seas during war times.I remembered my Uncle Harvey telling me about digging for turnips in the frozen ground in January way behind enemy lines. And how he felt he could take on the world after such a meal.I remembered my Dad telling me about when they liberated a concentration camp. He was atop his tank with binoculars and through them he saw what he thought were rags hangin on a wire fence. When they got closer it was a woman, so thin and ragged. And dammed if she wasn't cheering for them!I remember my grandfather talking about being shot while handing out chocolate to children in a town they were liberating. He could not understand why people would shoot someone feeding children.The one thing these men had in common, is they each faced hardships, yet they were astonished at the hardships others endured. They each went hungry at times, yet continued on. And every one of them was thankful for what they had.Thinking of them today, has made me more thankful for what we have now. It has also made me realize that we can meet the challenge to get healthier. WE can make momentary sacrifices, we can rise above our personal challenges in life. And it begins with being thankful. It continues with absoulte conviction and perserverance through hardship. It ends in victory.I will learn to be thankful for the fact that we have water to drink. I will learn to be thankful for the fact that we have healthy food to choose from.I will learn to be thankful that we have the opportunity to get healthy and stop whining about having to do an exercise session before I have lunch. Hell, I get lunch and I don't have to dig it out of the frozen ground or get shot at while having it.I will remember them and try very hard to do better. Starting now.YOu have a restful night gals, you is gonna need it!Love eleanora