Saturday 29 January 2011

Discharge papers

My dad was discharged from the South African Defence Force. He served in East Africa, Abyssinia and the Middle East. He was in Palestine - I've got a picture of him that he sent home on which he's written 'Guarding the Artesian Wells in Palestine'.
He joined the army when he was 19 and left in 1943 'medically unfit'. I've no idea what that meant, though he did have malaria in Africa.
He was already listing himself as a journalist.


Letters from Beaverbrook



My dad worked for Beaverbrook.

A life in ID cards






Passports


You can't be in it until you're in it

CRISTINA: "There's a club. The Dead Dads Club. And you can't be in it until you're in it. You can try to understand, you can sympathize. But until you feel that loss... My dad died when I was nine. George, I'm really sorry you had to join the club."
GEORGE: "I... I don't know how to exist in a world where my dad doesn't."
CRISTINA: "Yeah, that never really changes."


Grey's Anatomy