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2011-06-19

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Posted by 2011-06-19 10:28|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#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|| 2011-06-19 11:56|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2011-06-19 14:02|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2011-06-19 14:17|| Front Page Top

#4 It was my post, trailing wife. Enjoy the bodhran, AP!

Posted by lotp 2011-06-19 17:41|| 2011-06-19 17:41|| Front Page Top

#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|| http://www.celiahayes.com 2011-06-19 18:32|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2011-06-19 19:03|| Front Page Top

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