Talk:My Grandfather Was a Marine/@comment-10502460-20180404033613

Hmmm, decent to good. Gotta say I was expecting this to just be a generic cliched "my grnadfather was a nice old man as I knew him but then I found out he was really a war criminal oh noes" story, and you could see where it was going a mile away, but in the end I think you just managed to pull of what you were going for.

Rather than finding out his grandfather had a "dark secret" as many similar pastas do, I think the implication is simply that the photos make the narrator realize the tragedy of what his grandfather went through. The photos of him posing with dead enemies juxtaposed with him playing with village children is just showing two sides of him, his human side and his professional killer side that he had to have, rather than a "good to evil" thing. The last written caption "a lot of fight in this one" I think really wraps it up in a chilling way.

So although some of the writing here is shaky and needs proofreading,this story has my approval.