Susan Saulny

So to my grandfather, this was a matter of life and death, and he passed that feeling on to my mother's generation, and then they passed it on to me.

So when I lived in Chicago,

I was very busy with other things news-related and finding family.

Yes, I knew about it, but I didn't look into it at the time because I think I had a little bit of my grandfather's voice still in my head saying, leave well enough alone.

What made this moment different, it's the confluence of a lot of things.

It's my mother's age and that she never knew what happened to Edward.

And she's 85 and she's losing her memory.

And I wanted her to know what happened to her uncle and the Pope's announcement.

And the fact that this generation of Chicago cousins, this third generation, they have a new attitude and a new spirit.

And I had a feeling that they might be open to hearing this information.

And sure enough, my hunch was right.

My grandfather was someone who sort of, he didn't do a lot of complaining.

He took what like gave him and tried to do the best he could.

He walked a lot with me and other grandchildren because he never owned a car.

He never learned how to drive.

So I have lots of memories of walking around

different parts of New Orleans with him.

And one walk that we liked to make was toward Bayou St.

John to see the water.

And I remember on one of these days, I just asked him, there were so many people in my family.