*hugs* I said this in my own LJ, which you may or may not have read, but my grandfather is a WWII vet and he's been in the hospital for the last few weeks. He's 80, and his health is fading pretty quickly. I don't know if he'll ever come home again. And I never realized, until now, how much I'd been equating him with Steve. I play Cap in an RPG, and I'd been taking cues from my grandfather on slang and personality and worldview and history to use for my version of Cap. And my younger brother and I had even made jokes to each other about how our grandfather could secretly be Captain America.
Today, my brother and I were on the phone, and he said, kind of quietly, "Jen, let's not call Pop Captain America anymore, ok?" He didn't have to explain what he meant. I want to forget the connection, but it's there in my mind, so Cap's death is making me feel worse about my grandfather's illness, and my grandfather's illness is making me feel worse about Cap. It's tough.
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Date: 2007-03-10 02:58 am (UTC)Today, my brother and I were on the phone, and he said, kind of quietly, "Jen, let's not call Pop Captain America anymore, ok?" He didn't have to explain what he meant. I want to forget the connection, but it's there in my mind, so Cap's death is making me feel worse about my grandfather's illness, and my grandfather's illness is making me feel worse about Cap. It's tough.