Posted on 01/09/2008 3:22:57 PM PST by Syncro
It will take a while, but the pain will fade.””
Parts of the pain will fade.
Parts will never fade.
My dad has been gone over 27 years. Still hurts. Only when I do the math and realize that he would be almost 100 and would probably have Alzheimer’s and not know who or where he was does it make everything feel better.
"...In the early 1980s, as vice president and labor lawyer for Phelps Dodge copper company, Father broke a strike against the company, which culminated in the largest union decertification ever -- at that time and perhaps still.From books.google.com:President Reagan had broken the air traffic controllers' strike in 1981. But unions recognized that it was the breaking of the Phelps Dodge strike a few years later that landed the greater blow, as described in the book 'Copper Crucible.'" - Ann Coulter
...Plain manners and monotone voice aside, Coulter was one of the company's most colorful characters.He joined Phelps Dodge after nine years as a counterespionage agent in New York...
So difficult to lose mom and dad. I have also,...but what good memories...
Thanks for the thread, Syncro.
I love Ann Coulter....
sounds like her father was a good one...
sad ping.
Condolences to Ann and her family.
When the spy walked into the hotel lobby for the rendezvous, Father nearly fell off his chair when the man with the Herald Tribune folded under his elbow just so ... was also wearing a full-length fur coat. But he couldn't have told his contact: "I'll be the only white man in North America wearing a full-length fur coat."
In the early 1980s, as vice president and labor lawyer for Phelps Dodge copper company, Father broke a strike against the company, which culminated in the largest union decertification ever -- at that time and perhaps still. President Reagan had broken the air traffic controllers' strike in 1981. But unions recognized that it was the breaking of the Phelps Dodge strike a few years later that landed the greater blow, as described in the book "Copper Crucible."
There was massive violence by the strikers, including guns being fired into the homes of the mine employees who returned to work. Every day, Father walked with the strikebreakers through the picket line, (in my mind) brushing egg off his suit lapel.
By 1986 it was over; the mineworkers voted against the union and Phelps Dodge was saved. For any liberals still reading, this is what's known as a "happy ending."
To Mother's lifelong consternation -- until he had dementia and she could get him back by smothering him with hugs and kisses -- Father wasn't demonstrative. But all he wanted was to be with Mother (and to work on his Volkswagens). They traveled the world together, went to DAR conventions together, engaged in Republican politics together and went to the New York Philharmonic together -- for three decades, their subscription seats were on the highest landing, or as we Scots call it, the "Music Lovers" level.
When Mother was in a rehabilitative facility briefly after surgery a few years ago and Father was not supposed to be driving, we were relieved that a snowstorm had knocked out the power to the garage door opener, so Daddy couldn't get to the car. It would just be a week and then Mother would be home.
My brother came home to check on Father the first day of this arrangement to find that he had taken an ax to the side door of the garage, so he could drive to the rehab center and sit with Mother all day.
When she left him for five days last summer to go to a family reunion in Kentucky, at some point, Father, who hadn't been able to speak much anymore, looked up and asked his nurse, "Where is she?"
And last Friday morning at 2 he passed away, in his bedroom with Mother. The police and firemen told my brother that they kept trying to distract Mother to keep her away from the bedroom with Father's body, but she kept padding back into the bedroom to be close to him.
Now Daddy is with Joe McCarthy and Ronald Reagan. I hope they stop laughing about the Reds long enough to talk to God about smiting some liberals for me.
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Oh Ann, if you’re here reading this, please accept my condolences. I’m so very sorry for your loss.
My deepest sympathies Ann. He sounds like a good man, and the world can ill afford to lose another one.
May God bless you and the rest of your family in these bittersweet days, Ann.
~Isaiah 40
Prayers for Ann and her family.
I love her.
Condolences to Ms. Coulter on her loss. But you can read the pride in her words. A greater tribute no father could have.
Hadn’t seen this. Thanks for posting it. I’m sorry to hear about the passing of Ann’s father. I’m glad she has some wonderful memories of him. I lost my Dad back in 1978, and miss him still. May they both Rest in Peace.
Thanks for carrying the torch for conservatism.
Kudos to you. You are a fine person. I'd be proud to call you friend.
May God tender your heartache over the loss of your beloved Father. I sympathize with your loss, but celebrate his meeting with Our Lord.
Bless you and your family and in your father’s name, please keep up the good conservative fight!
Wow! That was a GREAT tribute!
My heart and prayers go out to Ann her family. I am so very sorry for your loss.
[. ..and let the 'smiting' of those Libs begin/;^)]
Thanks for the post... Sad heart for your loss Ann, and I really liked your visual of who your dad was having a chat with when he got home.
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