He signed up for war, but for that damn rumble…

He never used a hearing aid, even though he said, “what?” a lot. It wasn’t as bad as my mom, she still uses a hearing aid and recently amped it up.

He told us the story of when he signed up to volunteer and fight in the Vietnam War with his brother. He was denied because he didn’t pass the hearing test.

It wasn’t until later that we discovered he was in a fight a few days before. Someone hit him on the side of his head with a heavy object. Then, my niece asked him what they were fighting for. He said they were fighting to protect their neighborhood, “it was a normal rumble.” We laughed when she said, “Grandpa was a greaser!”

A “greaser” was a character in a movie, The Outsiders.