this chapter kind of confirms what I sort of suspected last week when chapter 962 said 33 years ago whitebeard started his crew
I went and looked at the ages of some of the members of his crew, which unfortunately there is only a few of the whitebeard pirates ages revealed, after looking at marco, jozu and vistas ages I thought 'oh maybe they were just teenagers when whitebeard recruited them'
that seems to be the case, I also wonder if you look at the images of when they were children it looks like they are poor and could mean they were orphans just like whitebeard himself was
whitebeard taking them in would add another layer to why they called him pops.....just a thought