What event did you miss that saved your life (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by x4740N@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Saw the post asking people for mising their plane stories and made me wonder if peoples lives where saved by missing some event so here I am asking

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[-] Dav@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

My grandad was on the HMS Arethusa playing poker with shipmates in WW2, went to the toilet on another part of the ship just as it was bombed. All the other poker players he left were killed.
I also sometimes think about how my grandad's bowel movements creating my entire family line.

this post was submitted on 18 Jul 2023

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