Posted on 04/24/2015 5:42:55 PM PDT by DemforBush
I really miss my Dad. He was my Hero.
When they first attempted to “colorize” Casablanca, they made the dress pink by mistake. Anyone who knew the script KNEW that she wore a BLUE dress! LOL
idjits.
I’ll bet the “Greatest generation” has lots of wonderful stories that could be made into movies! :-)
Same here. Forget the sports figures and celebrities. Dad is my hero.
Indeed. Dad taught me photography, and i was his darkroom assistant at age 9. For my sixteenth birthday, Dad gave me Vivitar Enlarger. He taught me all about Movie making, Audio Engineering, Classical Music, Photography, History, Plumbing, Carpentry, Arctic Survival, Gas Fitting, Patriotism, and Theology.
I remember him explaining the Lord’s Prayer to me, line by line, when I was about 7.
He enlisted in the navy at 17, fought in two wars, and was wounded at Iwo Jima.
Since he was the ship’s photographer, I grew up surrounded by authentic, unpublished photos of China, Occupied Japan, and many major battles of WW2 and Korea.
he went to be with the Lord Sept. 6, 2011, and FR was there for me!
My Dad wasn’t quite as illustrious. However, he too served in WW II — Europe and North Africa. He was supposed to go to the Pacific, but about halfway there, the bombs were dropped and the war was over.
Those men and women from the Greatest Generation were the salt of the earth. Makes me sad to know we won’t see another generation like theirs again — at least not in the foreseeable future.
My Dad passed suddenly in 1992. A day doesn’t go by that I don’t think of him. I bore people on this site with stories about him from time to time. I guess this is my way of keeping him alive in my heart and mind.
Apparently he was quite a guy at even a tender age.....
Amen.
I am reading “Unbroken” right now, about Louis Zamperini, and I just keep thinking about my Dad and his generation.
They went through so much!
Indeed, he was. At the tender age of NINE he was already at sea in the commercial fishery out of Gloucester, MA. Two masted wooden schooner under sail.
His job was to cut out the cod livers and save them up to sell to vitamin companies.
Eyew.
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