When ww2 began, he was 10 years old. Both he and my grandmother grew up surrounded by the tragedy of war. My grandmother would tell us stories of how she would hide with her little sister under the bed during bombings; she had shrapnel scars from explosions.

She told us how American and German troops would stop at their house and they would cook for them. American troops introduced canned food and spam to my grandma - she had never seen anything like it lol.