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| To all you dads out there |
| 2011-06-19 |
| My dad worked hard to provide for us. Taught me to fish and shoot a gun and paddle a canoe and how hard it was to build a new concrete patio. Had a temper that sometimes exploded, but that was outshone by his humor and self-deprecation. Encouraged me to set high goals, even when he also hoped I'd teach high school and stay close to home. Let me know that he loved me deeply and always would and that I could come home again if ever I needed to. To all you dads - you matter. A lot. I hope your day today is rich with knowing that. |
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| #6 yes Happy Father's Day Rantburgers, I hope you're having a wonderful day. I miss my dad terribly, he was so awesome, very strict but loving at the same time. Taught me to fish, use a bow and arrow well, and ride horses. Bought an army barracks and used the wood to build our home years ago,(Growing up in the depression not wanting to spend alot of money)Oh how I wish people of this generation would be more mindful of expenditures. |
| Posted by: Jan at work 2011-06-19 19:03 |
| #5 My daughter and I were racking our brains, coming up to this weekend, trying to remember if we had sent a Father's Day card to my Dad last year. We are pretty sure we did. Dad taught my brother and I about snakes when we were pre-school age, saw me off to the Air Force in 1977, designed and built his and Mom's retirement house almost from the ground up, was a caring father-sub for my daughter, gave the best nature-walks ever! bought me a somewhat newer car when he got worried about me, driving around in a 25 year old Volvo. He died very suddenly of a health issue that wasn't even diagnosed until the last week of his life, on the day after Christmas, 2010. I miss him enormously. Christmas and Father's Day is wrecked for me, for about the next decade. Yes, we did send a card. |
| Posted by: Sgt. Mom 2011-06-19 18:32 |
| #4 It was my post, trailing wife. Enjoy the bodhran, AP! |
| Posted by: lotp 2011-06-19 17:41 |
| #3 Yes, I think about my late father on Father's Day. One of only a few regrets is that I could not fly him around Alaska in my plane before he died. Happy Father's Day to all the Rantburg Dads out there. M'Lady got me an Irish bodhran for Father's Day. Total surprise. It is a good day. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2011-06-19 14:17 |
| #2 Amen to that! My Dad provided for 7 of us kids and set a great example for us: worked every day of his life, meted out discipline when it was called for (honestly, in that big a family, it was called for quite a lot), and has stayed married to Mom for 63 years and counting. What better legacy could we kids have? |
| Posted by: Tom 2011-06-19 14:02 |
| #1 A Rantburg original -- a pity the name of the poster got lost, as sometimes happens. Well said, O invisible writer! Thank you. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2011-06-19 11:56 |