God bless your father. He and his generation saved the world. Think of what we saw as well. I was born in 1956. I saw the birth of the space program, the birth of Rock ‘n’ Roll and The Beatles on The Ed Sullivan Show, the beginning and ending of the Vietnam War, Desert Storm, Operation Iraqi Freedom, 9/11. I saw men land on the moon. As a little kid watching tv on a Sunday morning I saw Lee Harvey Oswald gunned down by Jack Ruby. I have seen the birth of computers and the internet and X-Box(got one, love it!). Indeed this has been an amazing century. My sympathies for the loss of your Dad. I lost my mother eleven years ago to the ravages of Alzheimers. I don’t have children of my own but I come from a large family, four other brothers and two sisters. I saw in the example of my father that the greatest thing any father can do for his children is to love their mother. My dad certainly loved my mother.
I saw Willie Blythe and Barry Soetoro so it wasn’t all good.