My father was almost perfect. Modest, unassuming, a mathematician who set the sites on guns in Japan during WWII yet rarely spoke about it. He was my math tutor which shows what a saint he was.
Your dad sounds a lot like mine. I’ve always thought he was one of the smartest people I’ve ever know. He was an engineer and a math genius. Unfortunately, as hard as he tried to tutor me, math just wasn’t my strong suit.
He was a devout conservative and just a wonderful human being.