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I can barely remember my great grandfather, he passed away when I was just 6, but I always remember him telling us over and over the way he got to Mexico and how he got the bayonet over the closet of his room, he was a French man who escaped his country during a war with his brother aside with a group of people who were searching for protection outside France, he had a huge love for France but he couldn’t stand people dying everywhere, destruction here and there, and people devastated by war. Recruited by the army forcefully, he searched for a country that wasn’t on war and where he could stay, and with only some clothes and a bayonet he left France, some people said he betrayed his nation because he didn’t assumed the responsibility of serving his country during war, but he did it to survive, and avoid killing people. This bayonet was very antique and looked like out of a movie, a dark red handle with a large steel blade, it was certainly amazing, it was his treasure, I remember every day we went to his house he showed this amazing bayonet to us saying that was the only thing he had from his motherland and how much he missed not only the country but his family which he left behind, and that when he held it he could almost saw France and his family in his imagination, something he explained as perfect and peace. He was a very old man, and for what I can remember he was also very kind. He spoke Spanish very well but he said he couldn’t write it. About a year before he passed away he gave to my family his greatest possession, his old bayonet which he told us to keep so we could remember him every time we see it.  Since then we have kept the bayonet in the wall of our living room above the chimney and told the story to anyone who asks about the old bayonet, and how it got to our hands, passed by our great grandfather. This bayonet will be passed from generation to generation in our family, to keep it safe and always remember our ancestors. We know it doesn’t worth a huge amount of money but its sentimental value is huge to my family since my mother loved him a lot. (404)