60 Years after......and I still miss him.....

Sad he couldn't be here......60 years after...
He really had deserved to be here with his "mates" to celebrate and to mourn his fallen comrades. And to receive the gratitude from the people, even after so many years.
The only gratitude my father got was the message from my grandfather that he had caused the dead of my mother and that "the child" died too........and with that bloody lie he had to live so many years....until he was presented for a whole new family, all of his own....
As a Canadian MP Lance Corporal he was decorated 4 times for bravery in the field, he almost lost his whole battalion because they had beaten the Frogs so badly that their newly advanced positions were unknown by the general staff, so they bombarded the sector he just had conquered, losing all the officers and most of his buddies.....but he survived....a real Wolfe....
He "opened up" Mauthausen and the first thing he had to do was to collect all the guns and rifles from his platoon to prevent them shooting every Frog they saw.......and the only thanks he got was from a German officer, a heavy silver cigarettebox........the only souvenir he saved from that bloody war....
And when he met Nanny in Holland, it was the start of something beautiful and.......me......
He and my mother are finally together "up there" and they will keep the look-out for me, Pam and Ronald and my children and grandchildren....they are both proud, I know that for sure.....
But still it's sad he isn't here anymore...........and yes I miss him most of the time.....that will probably never disappear....I know that now, being a father and grandfather too.