Posted on 06/17/2017 7:56:23 PM PDT by Hildy
Edited on 06/17/2017 9:25:00 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
Tomorrow is Father's Day and I was thinking that maybe those of us whose fathers are no longer with us might post their favorite photo with a one word description of how he is remembered. For example:
Edward Allen Linn
November 14th 1922 - February 7, 2000
PRINCIPLED
This picture was taken circa 1963.
A little better.
My Dad, WWII US Army Pacific Theater Veteran, 5/28/1914 - 10/08/1988. Miss you more than I can ever say, Dad.
Army aire Corp 13th Air Depot - south pacific
1-11-20. —— 6-4-14
One word: Loving
My father, Matthew, loved a great story. His final gift to me was giving me one to tell over and over.
I stopped by to see him and mom before a long drive home and asked if they had early voted. They had not. I was surprised because dad was an ardent voter.
You need to vote early because you are old, I said. Mom laughed saying I thought they were going to die before voting against obama... we laughed and I told them I loved them and to go vote.
The next morning, dad died of a heart attack. He died with one regret, that he didn’t get to vote against Obama... I hope he isn’t voting democrat now.
Mom insisted I take her to vote, which I gladly did. I miss you pops.
Thanks! I didn’t know how to do that. I’ll get the administrator to change it.
Thank you for sharing that story.
1913 - 1999 Dedicated
Incredible photo of your dad. You were lucky in the dad department. Thanks for sharing him with the rest of us.
I’ve been lucky in the life department, frankly. And I know it. Lucky people know they’re lucky. And I know I am lucky.
I found that statement to be very true. He died 4 days before Father's Day in 1976. Been missing him ever since.
:)
Sunday June 11, last weekend, was my dad’s 100th birthday. he passed away 13 years ago.
He rode and hiked across Europe in ‘45 as a combat medic.
Bronze Star for running out into an open meadow and grabbing a wounded man, with incoming 88’s falling around them, throwing him over his shoulders and skedaddling back into the woods.
His unit liberated some death camps. He had black and white pics of piles of bodies. He remembered the smell.
Dear Dad:
Thank you. You installed in me a work ethic and honor that has served me my entire life, even when I haven't lived up to it. You were a real man who had the respect of nearly everyone who ever met you. You showed me the importance of respect, and how to render it with sincerity. You showed me how to overcome adversity and be a self-starter. You showed me how to treat a woman properly by the way you treated your wife and my mother. And you showed me the value of determination and hard work when maintaining a relationship with a spouse.
Your generation of men didn't always say "I love you" to your sons, but you damn well showed it in your actions. And when I was able to say it to you, in the last months of your life because you were paralyzed by a stroke and could not protest, and you told me with your eyes that you were okay with me saying it, you showed how much you loved me, and all of us.
How I miss you, Dad. I would love to sit across from the kitchen table with you once more, for just a while, and watch you drink your ever present coffee and smoke your Pall Malls. I would love to ask you all those things that had never even occurred to me to ask when you could answer them. I would love to hear the deep timbre of your voice as you talk, without the reticence that made you a most quiet and private man to us as you raised us.
I love you, Dad. Fair Winds, and Following Seas.
Thank you. He was a sharing man.
My first Father’s Day without Dad who passed last Monday.
He was in the army from 63 to 68 but stayed in the south USA - Fort Campbell. Whatever the reason he stayed stateside I thank God.
I supposed (with no proof nor reason ..) there was something about me they thought was worth keeping alive.
Those years were the years most on the wall gave their all ... or maybe now that we know more .... WERE TAKEN.
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