Talk:Hands of a Living God/@comment-25248589-20140731134600

The subject of this story is good, as was the overall presintation, but it fails on chronology. For instance the grandmother was 13 in the year 1949, which means she was born in 36, that would make her 77 or 78, not close to 90.

An even more disturbing discontinuity is outlined in the follown paragraph quote...

"Granny and Pap moved to the town soon after Pap came home from Germany and got a job in the mines. Pap came from a long line of coal miners; it was his life and he was proud of the work and proud of the Union. It was modest pay, what with a wife and five children"

The only way this would work, is if the grandfather was one of the very first GI's to get demobilized, and shiped home in 1945; Marry the grandmother within a month of getting back, who at the time would have been age 9; and then kept her in a constant state of pregnancy until the summer of 1949 (48 months divided by 9 months per pregnancy = 5.33~).