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Road Side Pub
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<blockquote data-quote="quad" data-source="post: 16523337" data-attributes="member: 17952"><p>Sorry for your loss Recon!</p><p></p><p>My grandfather was my hero and we lost him in 1983 to a heart attack @ 76. He was in the hospital for a week. He would have been 113 years old now if he was still alive today.</p><p></p><p>The day before he died I ran a 1200m race and won it. The race was held at the University of Johannesburg Athletics Track and in the final stretch there was a clear view of the hospital where he stayed. This gave me inspiration to run as hard and fast as I could and I ended up winning.</p><p></p><p>And then the next day my mom came back from the hospital with the sad news. Fortunately I did get to see him in the hospital and I was actually with him when he had the heart attack. He was throwing up and my dad and I drove with him to the hospital. He smoked and drank a lot of wine and could have lived longer if he took better care of himself. But he was still my hero regardless. My sister and I loved listening to stories he told us.</p><p></p><p>The bridge near the stadium was also the scene of a disaster 2 years later when a school bus drove into Westdene Dam and 39 school children drowned and 2 more died in the hospital. They are all buried together in the same cemetery as my grandfather and grandmother.</p><p></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westdene_dam_disaster" target="_blank">Westdene dam disaster - Wikipedia</a></p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1672244[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1672245[/ATTACH]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="quad, post: 16523337, member: 17952"] Sorry for your loss Recon! My grandfather was my hero and we lost him in 1983 to a heart attack @ 76. He was in the hospital for a week. He would have been 113 years old now if he was still alive today. The day before he died I ran a 1200m race and won it. The race was held at the University of Johannesburg Athletics Track and in the final stretch there was a clear view of the hospital where he stayed. This gave me inspiration to run as hard and fast as I could and I ended up winning. And then the next day my mom came back from the hospital with the sad news. Fortunately I did get to see him in the hospital and I was actually with him when he had the heart attack. He was throwing up and my dad and I drove with him to the hospital. He smoked and drank a lot of wine and could have lived longer if he took better care of himself. But he was still my hero regardless. My sister and I loved listening to stories he told us. The bridge near the stadium was also the scene of a disaster 2 years later when a school bus drove into Westdene Dam and 39 school children drowned and 2 more died in the hospital. They are all buried together in the same cemetery as my grandfather and grandmother. [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westdene_dam_disaster']Westdene dam disaster - Wikipedia[/URL] [ATTACH=full]1672244[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1672245[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]
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