Terry, I love your Mildred Pettifog stories. She was a good woman. Now I want to talk about my grandfather (maternal), who was pretty much a born in, and passed at 85. Long time elder, and congregation servant before that. He truly believed all of it. He had great fondness for the “organization “. In his eighties, he lost a leg, due to diabetes. His overall health was failing. I had been out for about 15 years by this time. We sat alone, and I held his hand and let him talk. He expressed great disappointment in the fact that Armageddon had not yet come. He pointed to his missing leg, and said that he thought that he would be “marching triumphantly” straight into the “New System.” He died so disappointed, and disillusioned. Poor man, he was truly good. And,BTW, he HATED pedophiles.