DogMan 2,343 Posted October 13, 2013 Report Share Posted October 13, 2013 I thought this was remarkable...... Anna Mae Dickinson was eight when she lost her father and narrowly escaped death herself on the Titanic. She was 11 when she lost her Aunt Olivia in the torpedoing of the Lusitania. She was 31 when she lost her first cousin Alfred in the Hindenberg explosion. She was 37 when she lost her nephew Thomas in the bombing of Pearl Harbor.And she was 97 when her tiny apartment was shaken and battered by the collapse of the twin towers on Sptember 11, 2001. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Mullet Man 2,114 Posted October 13, 2013 Report Share Posted October 13, 2013 (edited) Aint no fucking way. Edited October 13, 2013 by Mullet Man Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Sim_Player 1,939 Posted October 13, 2013 Report Share Posted October 13, 2013 Or good luck that she survived to 97. Most of us will never see 97. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
DogMan 2,343 Posted October 13, 2013 Author Report Share Posted October 13, 2013 Aint no fucking way. You might be right. I read it, but I can't seem to find anything to confirm it. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Matthew Hopkins 1,065 Posted October 13, 2013 Report Share Posted October 13, 2013 I don't believe it. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
MT Predator 2,294 Posted October 13, 2013 Report Share Posted October 13, 2013 Wow! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
HB of CJ 1,263 Posted October 13, 2013 Report Share Posted October 13, 2013 Wow! But look at the bright side...even though she and her immediate family had it very rough, she herself survived to live to a very old age indeed. Her family should write a book on her life.....sounds like a very good movie. Maybe the title could be......"Lifes Shit". HB of CJ (old coot) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Arik 565 Posted October 13, 2013 Report Share Posted October 13, 2013 Even if its real it has nothing to do with her. Only the Titanic. Everything else is just relatives. Yea my grandfather died when I was 3, grandma when I was 9. Another grandfather when I was 18...im sure I had many ot great er relatives die whom I dont know....so what. She survived the Titanic and her apt was shaken by ths fall of the towers, along with just about every other building within a few miles of the site 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
haugpatr 972 Posted October 13, 2013 Report Share Posted October 13, 2013 (edited) Worst case of bad luck I ever heard of was a Japanese guy who was injured at Hiroshima and then was being treated at a hospital in Nagasaki, two time nuke survivor. ETA - Here is a link to Wikipedia describing the situation, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsutomu_Yamaguchi Edited October 13, 2013 by HOG76 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
gunfun 3,930 Posted October 13, 2013 Report Share Posted October 13, 2013 My grandfather had the bad luck to be posted on a number of crummy ships in WWII pacific theater. His had the bad luck to break down in the middle of the pacific. Real bad luck. It made them late to be at pearl harbor. He later had the bad luck to see his friends get vaporized in landing craft that he wasn't assigned to. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Capt Nemo 882 Posted October 13, 2013 Report Share Posted October 13, 2013 Worst in WWII for us, uncle's boat got the bow blown off by a torpedo. Limped her home. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
JoeAK 337 Posted October 14, 2013 Report Share Posted October 14, 2013 Aside from it being his first mission, this was actually very good luck, this was my granduncle. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Brown_and_Franz_Stigler_incident Quote Link to post Share on other sites
sunnybean 939 Posted October 14, 2013 Report Share Posted October 14, 2013 If you want to read a great book about surviving extremely bad luck check out 'unbroken'. WWII bombardier that goes down and spends years suffering in the worst concentration camps. Fucking gnarly but a very inspiring story. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Arik 565 Posted October 14, 2013 Report Share Posted October 14, 2013 (edited) How about this guy! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yang_Kyoungjong But this can go either way. Case of bad luck after bad luck but looking back at it all it seems that he was lucky to have survived. "Yang Kyoungjong (c. 1920 – April 7, 1992) was a Korean soldier who fought during World War II in the Imperial Japanese Army, the Soviet Red Army, and later the German Wehrmacht.[1][2][3][4] In 1938, at the age of 18, Yang was in Manchuria when he was conscripted into the Kwantung Army of the Imperial Japanese Army to fight against the Soviet Union. At the time Korea was ruled by Japan. During the Battles of Khalkhin Gol, he was captured by the Soviet Red Army and sent to a labour camp. Because of the manpower shortages faced by the Soviets in its fight against Nazi Germany, in 1942 he was pressed into fighting in the Red Army along with thousands of other prisoners, and was sent to the European eastern front.[1][3] In 1943, he was captured by Wehrmacht soldiers in Ukraine during the Battle of Kharkov, and was then pressed into fighting for Germany. Yang was sent to Occupied France to fight in a battalion of Soviet prisoners of war known as the "Eastern Battalion", serving in a battalion located on the Cotentin peninsula in Normandy, located close to Utah Beach. After the D-Day landings in northern France by the Allied forces, Yang was captured by paratroopers of the United States Army in June 1944. The Americans initially believed him to be Japanese in German uniform, and he was placed in a prisoner-of-war camp in the United Kingdom. At the time, Lieutenant Robert Brewer of the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division, reported that his regiment captured four Asians in German uniform after the Utah Beach landings, and that initially no one was able to communicate with them. Yang later emigrated from Russia to the United States, where he lived until he died in Illinois in 1992" Edited October 14, 2013 by Arik Quote Link to post Share on other sites
poolingmyignorance 2,191 Posted October 14, 2013 Report Share Posted October 14, 2013 I'm sure if we all went digging around we could find a few relatives that were killed or directly effected by major events. Then twist it to somehow make it all about our bad luck. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ndmak 10 Posted October 14, 2013 Report Share Posted October 14, 2013 ^^ and then that would entitle us to live off of the government and the other working people around us to pay for us and our children's food, clothing and other needs like a cell phone and satellite tv for our 50" plasmas Quote Link to post Share on other sites
poolingmyignorance 2,191 Posted October 15, 2013 Report Share Posted October 15, 2013 ^^ and then that would entitle us to live off of the government and the other working people around us to pay for us and our children's food, clothing and other needs like a cell phone and satellite tv for our 50" plasmas Well yea. You know a better way to get free shit? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
getitat 609 Posted October 15, 2013 Report Share Posted October 15, 2013 Hello As the legendary blues band Savoy Brown sang in "She Got a Ring In His Nose And a Ring On Her Hand" "Everybody got to be unlucky sometime..." I love that line. Hell, I love that song. I just like the damn band, for that matter. -guido in Houston Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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