Grant B
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About 15 years ago, I found myself with a day off from work in Central Flordia.For some strange reason, I ended up at the lake where my Father drowned 25 years earlier when I was one year old. I knew very little about him or his death so I looked up some newspapers on file in the public library. I found two small articles that led to more questions than answers. In fact everything I found made very little sense and asked only more questions. A few for instances:
A wrong death certificate. My father was my grandfathers only child. He went down to 'identify the body'. It said he was never married ( grandpa was the best man at the wedding), never in the services (air force and the reserves for nearly 7 years) no SS # and had his middle name mispelled. The certificate was signed by a judge who admitted to me he never saw the body. There are no hospital records, coronor records no burial records and no records of anyone even digging a hole.Some how he got boxed up in flordia and buried in Wisconsin (closed casket).
Then I started finding out the real strange stuff.
He applied for a drivers license in Ohio a day after he died in Flordia.
He took my mother to Cuba right before the bay of Pigs where he pointed out such things as a unmarked Prison where Castro kept political prisoners, Knew a voice on the radio was Castro (Ohio and Wisconsin was not hotbeds of Spanish speaking in the 50s). Honeymoon photos of Cannons and defence positions with soldiers (I would of got killed if I took those photos on my honeymoon).
When I pulled his service records I found he received an honorable discharge from the air force in 6 weeks. He told his family he was thrown out of the service.
I received Social Security up to College since I was the only heir. SS has no records of him and his death.
After quizing mom and his half brother found little strange stories like
Mom went to bed with him one night and the next morning he was gone. 3days later he called from Santo Domingo (Went to sleep in Toledo Ohio) where he was diving for bodies from a bus that went off a bridge?!?!?!
Called one day and to tell my mom to watch the news. He was reporting about the overthrow of a South American dictator from the capital city. He did not work for TV or radio.
His name shows up in classifed CIA files;the contents not released
The FBI claims to have no records of him
I checked to see how much to dig him up and see if there is anyone there (there is a tombstone!)
Up to $8000 and the local Quincy says until there is proof of a crime. I have to pay up
Any good movie writers out there who want a great story for $8k???
Don't know the ending yet
A wrong death certificate. My father was my grandfathers only child. He went down to 'identify the body'. It said he was never married ( grandpa was the best man at the wedding), never in the services (air force and the reserves for nearly 7 years) no SS # and had his middle name mispelled. The certificate was signed by a judge who admitted to me he never saw the body. There are no hospital records, coronor records no burial records and no records of anyone even digging a hole.Some how he got boxed up in flordia and buried in Wisconsin (closed casket).
Then I started finding out the real strange stuff.
He applied for a drivers license in Ohio a day after he died in Flordia.
He took my mother to Cuba right before the bay of Pigs where he pointed out such things as a unmarked Prison where Castro kept political prisoners, Knew a voice on the radio was Castro (Ohio and Wisconsin was not hotbeds of Spanish speaking in the 50s). Honeymoon photos of Cannons and defence positions with soldiers (I would of got killed if I took those photos on my honeymoon).
When I pulled his service records I found he received an honorable discharge from the air force in 6 weeks. He told his family he was thrown out of the service.
I received Social Security up to College since I was the only heir. SS has no records of him and his death.
After quizing mom and his half brother found little strange stories like
Mom went to bed with him one night and the next morning he was gone. 3days later he called from Santo Domingo (Went to sleep in Toledo Ohio) where he was diving for bodies from a bus that went off a bridge?!?!?!
Called one day and to tell my mom to watch the news. He was reporting about the overthrow of a South American dictator from the capital city. He did not work for TV or radio.
His name shows up in classifed CIA files;the contents not released
The FBI claims to have no records of him
I checked to see how much to dig him up and see if there is anyone there (there is a tombstone!)
Up to $8000 and the local Quincy says until there is proof of a crime. I have to pay up
Any good movie writers out there who want a great story for $8k???
Don't know the ending yet