And as I got older, he disappeared when my grandfather died.

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But the fact is that standing in the field where my grandfather died doesn't make the pain of loss my mother has carried all her life any more meaningful.

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My grandfather died a while back.

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My genetic heritage had flaws: My father had a triple bypass at age 66 and my maternal grandfather died of a heart attack at age 56.

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"The last time I saw my grandfather before he died, he told me again about meeting my grandmother in Grand Central, " said Ruthie Ackerman, his granddaughter.

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My grandfather came home from that same war exhausted from the burdens he had borne and died the next day.

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