Charles Iliya Krempeaux remembering Charles Robert Krempeaux

⸺ by Charles Iliya Krempeaux

⸺ published 2012-02-05T01:37:10-08:00

I remember when my father (Charles Robert Krempeaux) was dying, he was reliving his past.

This didn't happen at first, but happened after some "complications". "Complications" that I believe were the result of an accident or incompetence by the hospital staff.

Mentally, my father (Charles Robert Krempeaux) was sharp until those "complications".

But anyway — back to him reliving his past. Some of his reliving of his past was from world-war-two (WW2) (WWII).

(That means he had me when he was around 50 if you're wondering. He also enlisted under-age.)

He thought I was his brother, my mother was his captain (maybe because she gave him "orders" too :-) ), but he didn't know who my brother was.

I think that bothered my brother. (I think that hurt my brother's feelings.)

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There was another time (when brother was there with my father (Charles Robert Krempeaux) that I think he thought he was captured.

I don't know if this was something that actually happened or not in the past — or if he was just misinterpreting his current situation through the "lens" of his past.

He thought he had been captured, and started chocking out one of the nurses, with one hand.

In some ways, that is kind of funny that a man of his old age could have done that :-) (Although, it would have not have been funny for the nurse having to go through that.)

My brother stopped it when he walked in and saw it.

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My father was a telecommunications engineer by profession (an applied physicist) all the time I knew him.

(During his time, telecommunication was the bleeding edge engineering field AFAIK. Sort of like software engineering is now.)

But when he was young, however, he was soldier. (Well, after leaving the university of british columbia (UBC), to enlist in the royal canadian navy (RCN) that is.)

(And, yes, that also means he went to University early)

When I was just single digits in age, I would hear about fresnel zones, hyperreactivity, operator j, etc relating to his work.

I eventually learning (enough) to truely understand what he was doing (at least from a theory point-of-view (POV.

But — there was a lot about what he did for the Canadian and U.S. military I don't know, and unfortunately, probably will never know.

For example, I know some of it was classified, and I know for one thing he had red phone with a direct line to the POTUS. But — I got the impression, from others, that there was a lot more to it.

In many ways, cognitively I'm a lot like him. Now that I have some knowledge of psychology and neuroscience, I have another perspective on it.

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