Tho dad did have one big fault, which however, he recognized and corrected...among all my happy memories are the bad memories, of when dad would drink too much, and then he became very violent...he was so different from when he was sober...when I was a small girl, I remember very often, how mean and violent he could get...but by the time I was a young teen-ager, he saw how bad he affected the family when he drank, and he stopped
So to his credit, he placed the welfare of his family above his craving for alcohol(His family has a rampant line of alcoholics, its like he was born into it...so it was hard to overcome, but overcome it he did)....
In spite of those bad times, he is still the kind of father I would wish for all children to have had...my own boys absolutely adored him.....called him 'Pop-Pop...
He died going onto 13 yrs ago now, and I still miss him so...but I was privileged to take care of him, in his own home, during the last few months of his life, and it was a pleasure to do so, because after all, he cared for me during all the hard times I gave him while I was growing up...
If you want to take a little trip down Mex 1..lol..If you have never done it, this might prove interesting...
.....Westy...