Posted on 06/21/2015 11:21:27 AM PDT by OddLane
Reuben Geller, a man among men.
I want to wish all the dad’s out there a wonderful, warm father’s day. I miss my father like mad. We love our fathers and wouldn’t be half the women we are without them. He died before 9/11 and frankly I am glad he didn’t live to see what happened to this great country. He wouldn’t recognize it.
It’s funny. I remember being very young in the backseat of the car listening to my parents talking about things I didn’t understand – world events etc. And my father said, “nothing is forever”. And my mother said, “not even America?” And he said, “not even America”. And I was dumbfounded. It was inconceivable to me (and my mother) that the greatest nation, the greatest force for good, wouldn’t prevail. I didn’t believe him — until September 11th, that is.
I wrote a little bit about him a few years ago. I am re-running it for those who may have missed it. He was a great man.
(Excerpt) Read more at pamelageller.com ...
Sounds a lot like my dad a WW2 vet. Cancer got him at age 50 and he was gone in 1967. He was an entrepreneur (owned a small clothing factory mens suits) in Brooklyn. There was nothing that man couldn’t fix.
Nations suffer from illness and poisons like any living thing. The illness is progressivism (or socialism or communism, whatever you call it today.) The poison is the rhetoric of political correctness.
I’m hoping it will recover and again be great. If it doesn’t then the world will descend into a new dark age. But a dark age when individuals and non-state actors will have the power of real Bond villains to destroy mankind on an unprece3dented scale. While there may be real Bond villains, like George Soros, there is no real James Bond to save us.
Happy Father’s Day dads. Al left us in 1998 at 70 years old. Although we miss him greatly, I am glad he did not have to be here on and after 9/11 to see what has happened to America today. He was a man of God and my parent’s greatest gift to us was giving us God and living close to His Word!
Today in church the men got a tool...an all in one tape measure, pen, post-it pad and level!! Just a reminder for them to pass God’s tools on to their children!!
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