My grandfather lives by the quote, "laugh, live, love, leave a legacy." He does just that. Ever since I was young, I have always had a strong connection with him. We are the jokesters of our family-together we laugh. We have deep, serious, and important conversations-together we learn. There is not a single soul in the world that I feel more loved by-together we love. Because we laugh, live, and love together-on me he will leave a legacy.
My grandfather 's name is Jack Donald Harpool. That name, in different forms, has been many places throughout his life. It was on school papers as a child, on the windows and walls of high school, a military dog tag, and a plane ticket to Africa. It was also on marriage papers almost 50 years ago to my grandmother Elaine, on the cover of all of the books that he wrote, and more recently, on the side of his successful storage business in Green, Ohio.
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He didn 't really like it or take it seriously at first. When he was in the seventh grade, he remembers that his mother, while preparing supper, spoke to his father and said, "if Jack didn 't settle down and become more focused" that she, "doubted he would be able to enter college let alone graduate from college. " Shortly thereafter, he challenged her statement. My grandfather decided not to live by that statement or to let that bring him down, but to the contrary, decided to disprove her prediction. He got through junior high with little harm, and went to North High school. He was very popular and a good student. He was even voted king of the winter formal dance. As a teenager, he read the daily Akron Beacon Journal. He liked the real estate section, stock pages, and the classified ads. That might seem weird for teenager, but it interested him. In ninth grade he studied Latin, which helped him to understand how the English language worked more
My grandfather 's name is Jack Donald Harpool. That name, in different forms, has been many places throughout his life. It was on school papers as a child, on the windows and walls of high school, a military dog tag, and a plane ticket to Africa. It was also on marriage papers almost 50 years ago to my grandmother Elaine, on the cover of all of the books that he wrote, and more recently, on the side of his successful storage business in Green, Ohio.
When telling about this …show more content…
He didn 't really like it or take it seriously at first. When he was in the seventh grade, he remembers that his mother, while preparing supper, spoke to his father and said, "if Jack didn 't settle down and become more focused" that she, "doubted he would be able to enter college let alone graduate from college. " Shortly thereafter, he challenged her statement. My grandfather decided not to live by that statement or to let that bring him down, but to the contrary, decided to disprove her prediction. He got through junior high with little harm, and went to North High school. He was very popular and a good student. He was even voted king of the winter formal dance. As a teenager, he read the daily Akron Beacon Journal. He liked the real estate section, stock pages, and the classified ads. That might seem weird for teenager, but it interested him. In ninth grade he studied Latin, which helped him to understand how the English language worked more