My granny's father was killed in WWI when she was just an infant. She always dreamt of visiting his war grave in France, unfortunately neither her not her mother achieved this. Several years ago, after granny's death, my dad and his late brother visited the grave and paid their respects. It is now the centenary of his death and my dad and my brothers have spent ages researching and planning a trip, the culmination of which was to be to visit the grave and stand together with the war medals awarded to my great-grandad. However, when they asked my late uncle's family for them, they were given one lie after another regarding their whereabouts. They then advised my dad that they had in fact sent them to my cousin on the other side of the world the day AFTER he had asked for them!!(Despite already saying they had been there since my uncle's death....) They said my dad had no entitlement to them. While that may or not be the case legally, I cannot believe their sheer spite, that they wouldn't even loan them for the trip. I feel it is the greatest insult ever to my gran and to her late father. We have absolutely no idea why they have turned on us. To me it just shows a complete lack of respect for family.My dad is over 80, a truly decent man who always puts his family first and I have never known him to be to be so upset. Men did not struggle and sacrifice so that future generations could be so rotten. It is now too late to even get copy medals from the authorities! I just wondered what other people thought.
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