My father's memory of horses isn't nearly as fond.
He wasn't even born when it happened but the tale left an impact on him for his entire life. His brothers decided to give the draft horses some apples they had picked - there was 4 boys ranging from a six year old to his oldest bother who was 13. My dad's 6 year old brother was feeding the mean horse - when the horse bared her teeth and instead of going for the apple clamped down on the small boy's shoulder and flipped him into the horse pen. Before any of the brothers could do anything she stomped him to death in just a few seconds. Naturally that sent all the boys screaming at the horses and his oldest brother jumped into the pen to scoop up his already dead brother from beneath the pawing horse. My grandfather who was working not to far away heard the screaming and grabbed a hammer and came running. My uncle said he'd never seen grandpa take a running step in his life but watched him grab the fence with one hand and cleared the top board in a single bound. He ran right up to horse and struck her in the head with the hammer and it sank to the handle and killed the big animal with a single blow.
Grandpa carried his dead son to the house and had to explain to his wife what happened. This was around 1925, in two years all the horses were gone and the farm was 100% mechanical. About 5 years ahead of most of his neighbors.
My father never told me that story - he always had a distrust/dislike of horses and never allowed us kids to have one growing up and told us to stay the **** off them when we were around people that had horses. He always had a mechanical type of mind and wasn't that great working with animals and was always yelling at us kids to be careful around protective mama cows and always beware of the bull to point us boys were like What, you think we are all morons?.
Years after my dad died I was talking to my uncle (the oldest brother who was well into his 80s) and somehow the topic of children dying came up and he mentioned something about one of my uncles dying as a child in an accident. I'd never heard the story and had only known the uncle existed by a headstone (and two others) in the cemetery next to my grandparents. After he told the story he said my dad was told the story when he was about the same age as the brother was when he was killed. My uncle said he regretted telling him the story so young because it really seemed to bother my dad that he had a brother he had never met and would never meet. The story stuck with him and as a child always acted a little afraid livestock and later as an adult always seemed kind of brutal towards them. I had never noticed that because my dad always seemed kind of brutal towards everyone - man or beast. I had always chalked it up to being 18 years old and killing North Koreans as the introduction to adulthood.
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