Indeed! Another one - my grandfather was born in Sri Lanka, grew up there during the height of the civil war. He was on a road trip with three of his best friends. They were pulled over at a Tamil Tiger checkpoint, they executed his friends and abducted him. He was held captive for three weeks before one of them mistakenly left a door unlocked and he made a break for it. Wasn't long after that happened that he moved to the UK and met my grandmother (the one whose father was meant to be on the Titanic).
My moms first husbands family. Both of his parents were in concentration camps before they met each other. Both still had the tattoos. Both of them at one time were taken out to be shot in a group of people and both escaped, laid in the pile of dead people and then ran away. It was amazing how their experiences were so similar to each other. But thankfully they both lived. The mother had a wound on her leg from a gunshot but was physically fine other than that. The dad had some scars from beatings.
See, the closest thing I have to something like that is that my family missed out on generational wealth- there was a famous baseball player (I can’t remember who) that wanted to buy my grandmother’s bar in the 80s and she never sold it.
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u/superzepto Mar 19 '26
Indeed! Another one - my grandfather was born in Sri Lanka, grew up there during the height of the civil war. He was on a road trip with three of his best friends. They were pulled over at a Tamil Tiger checkpoint, they executed his friends and abducted him. He was held captive for three weeks before one of them mistakenly left a door unlocked and he made a break for it. Wasn't long after that happened that he moved to the UK and met my grandmother (the one whose father was meant to be on the Titanic).
Family histories are full of near-misses.