Dear Mateys,

I would like to take one last opportunity to give thanks to everyone who has offered hopes and prayers. However, my grandfather died peacefully this morning. The best part is that he will no longer suffer. By this point, I have no living grandparents left.

My grandfather was a sergeant major in the Korean Air Force, fighting one battle after another, witnessing young men dying all around him under gunfire. You can't go through hell like that and not get changed by it, it made him rather violent in raising a family sometimes taking an axe and breaking things. Thankfully it began to calm as he got older for the sake of grandchildren. He raised my mother and my aunts and uncle well none the less.

Grandpa was also a pagan worshipping his ancestors but when he was close to death he came face to face with an angel and I believe he finally came to accept God who had now come down and taken him to Heaven, which was the hope we always had. Now he can rest peacefully.

Jacob,