Gotta vent!!

[21willys]

My wife just got off the phone with her mother. Her mother informed her that she just scrapped her grandfathers military medals from the army. I'm madder then you can imagine! How can you scrap something like that?!?! No freaking respect! She got a whopping $90!! Freaking Greed!!!

She said the only one she looked at was shaped like a shield and had 7 diamonds in it! About the size of a quarter. Anybody know what this would be? I'm trying to find it online.

:mad

 

[skull]

wrong

l understand they were hers after grampa passed away, but to scrap them is just so wrong


l am thinking you would have gladly paid her for those.

they medals are a great honor, how could she disrespect the sacrifice he made like that?



Later ..

 

[21willys]

Yes I would of gladly gave the $90 for them! My grandfather was a vet as well and couldn't imagine what I would do if I find out someone sold his medals!

It's a complete disrespect to any veteran!

 

[Willowbilly3]

Sounds like something besides greed. Who knows, maybe dementia is setting in or there was just a lot of pain associated with them. Hard to judge on something like that.

 

[Hydrocarbon Rocket]

Some lady my wife knows has been having Gold parties. She's been buying old broke necklaces and single ear rings and such. My wife ask me if I wanted to sale my High School ring. I ain't even seen it in 10 years but, I said no way. She sold her little one like it was nothing. She won't tell me what she got so it was probably nothing. She has had no telling how many wedding rings since we started. I'm fairly sure she still has the 1st one that I bought. I sold the wheels and radio out of my old Jeep just to get it.

Women don't have the sentimental attachment to objects that men do.

The 1st and last Christmas present I bought for my Mother was a cheap cameo necklace with matching earrings from the dollar store. I was so proud of myself. Within 2 weeks my sister was wearing the earrings and my granny had on the necklace. It broke my little heart.

I sure do love my little woman and definitely attached to what she has to offer me. If she asks me about my ring again, I'll say she can do whatever she wants.

 

[sgtpontiac]

Can't remember ever seeing a US military medal

the size of a quarter with stones that look like diamonds....not sure what that would be unless it's a foreign medal.....got me on that one....
Kind of a bummer that she would get rid of something that was so much a part of his life....[S

 

[TMP]

Try to find out who she sold them to and buy them back. If they are any kind of a person they will understand and maybe not rip your head off. My mother had my dad's year service pens from working with Gulf Oil. You got a dime size 24k gold pendant every five years of service. He had 39 years and missed 6 days work. She melted them all down when he had been dead several years and made an ring from them. They had small rubies and diamonds depending on years of service. I was very upset with her but said nothing for they were hers. When my Mom passed I was going through some of her stuff anfd found his 35 year pin. I was stoked. It has 4 small diamonds. I will in time have a ring made using the pendant as the face. I work for Chevron pipeline and they bought out Gulf in the 80's. Don't be too upset with the lady just ry to fix the problem. my .02 TP

 

[21willys]

More info!

the size of a quarter with stones that look like diamonds....not sure what that would be unless it's a foreign medal.....got me on that one....
Kind of a bummer that she would get rid of something that was so much a part of his life....[S

I searched for a couple hours and didn't find a whole lot. It's hard to know what exactly to look for when it's been several years since I've saw the medals.

My mother n law may be loosing her mind a bit but she has always been greedy. When her dad was alive he would send his grandkids x mas money to her and she was cought keeping it or lieing about the total on more then one accasion.

As for the post about them being hers, they wasn't. They was my father n laws dads. His dad was a proud vet, I can only imagine what his thoughts would be.

She sold them to a jewelry dealer in a meijers store. Im going to stop by tomorrow and see if they are still at the store but I doubt they are. They was sold before x mas.

 

[gold03]

I'm sorry to hear about this. I place great sentimental value in this kind of thing. I have my great grandfather's 1894 Winchester, and rifle cleaning kit. He carried the kit in an old cloth tobacco pouch. He hunted a lot. Everyone else seems to think it is just garbage. I might spill blood if some one tossed it. I have a Cross pen and pencil set from my uncle, a gift at my graduation. They don't work any more because I wore them out. God help the person who tosses them out. Both of those men are dead and gone, but the items are small memory containers that bring it all back when I see and touch them.

I just had to go and check to make sure they are still there. Its good.

I don't have any military medals from my family, and the items I have pale in comparison. I can't understand this kind of thing when I hear of it. They are little things that should be safely stored and spoken of to honour those whose memories they hold.

gold03

 

[Bamamav]

I'm sorry to hear about this. I place great sentimental value in this kind of thing...... They are little things that should be safely stored and spoken of to honour those whose memories they hold.

gold03

I agree. I had both of my two Grandpa's wooden handle hammers, and my Great Grandpa's flashlight. None of them were worth anything other than sentimental value. When they came up missing, I was sick. I was even sicker because I knew who took them, and it was just for spite.

 

[Dirtyrat]

Wow, just wow... I guess what some people think things are worth is very different than my own beliefs.

Not a chance in hell I would ever disrespect someone's medals in that manner, especially when it is your own family. The people who fight, and who fought for this country's freedom deserve more respect than that.

There are certain things I tend to hold grudges on, and this is definitely one of them. I would not hesitate to tell them what I thought about their disrespectful choices.

 

[Willowbilly3]

Even if greed was the only motivation, why wouldn't she give the kids a chance to buy them since they would have obviously paid more?? I still think there is some sort of under-tow here. My guess is the relationship she has with her kids isn't very good.

 

[21willys]

Wow, just wow... I guess what some people think things are worth is very different than my own beliefs.

Not a chance in hell I would ever disrespect someone's medals in that manner, especially when it is your own family. The people who fight, and who fought for this country's freedom deserve more respect than that.

There are certain things I tend to hold grudges on, and this is definitely one of them. I would not hesitate to tell them what I thought about their disrespectful choices.

I agree with you 100% and it's been very hard to not say anything. Not my style usually.

 

[21willys]

Even if greed was the only motivation, why wouldn't she give the kids a chance to buy them since they would have obviously paid more?? I still think there is some sort of under-tow here. My guess is the relationship she has with her kids isn't very good.

She has three children. The oldest is greedy like her and holds no emotional value to items.
The second oldest I consider my brother. He don't know yet, I'm going to tell him this evening in person.
The youngest, my wife, is pretty close to her and is pretty upset with her.

My mother n law don't hold any emotional attachment to anything including the medals. When my wife said something to her she didn't think it was any big deal.

The whole ordeal makes me mad. I don't care who the veteran is, you don't disrespect a vet like that!

 

[Neverdone]

some people have no respect. Nor do they have any understanding of what some things are. My grandpa passed a few years ago, he was in the Navy durring WW2 and up in the attic at his house was a trunk with all of his Navy stuff. I wanted that so bad when he passed but I didn't get to have it, instead my little cousin got it and now most of the stuff is gone or destroyed, he really just wanted the trunk (not sure why) but since my uncle was the oldest son he got to have it. He has no idea what most of that stuff is or concept of how important it is, and now I will never see that stuff again.

 

[21willys]

I'm sorry to hear that Neverdone, I know I'm very attached to my grandfathers few things that I have. I was lucky enough to have my uncle in charge of my gfathers things. He made sure things went to people who would cherish them and take care of them.

I haven't had a chance to talk to my brother n law yet. Guess I'm going to have to tell him over the phone.

Eric