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If you could talk to your Dad one more time,
KenK/84Bravo
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What would you want to ask him?
First I would tell him how much I miss him, respected his Service, and am I making you Proud.
You?
First I would tell him how much I miss him, respected his Service, and am I making you Proud.
You?
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So I think I am disqualified.
Mike
Thank you.
I can still have/and do have one sided conversations with him, most every day.
He was a true American BA, in every sense of the word.
32 year Lifer ABN CSM. WWII, Korea, Vietnam.
I have my own Chili recipe. Much better than anything my Dad came up with.
I actually didn't but he always blamed me for it.
I heard you Brother. That is exactly how I feel about my Dad.
He'd get teary eyed every time. Would give him a big hug. He did not know how to handle it, but I know he loved/appreciated it.
I miss you Dad .
so while he still could I took him back south just me and him to try and round up old friends he had not seen in 50 -60 years
post internet so it was asking locals to help track down who we could
one think a old photo the only one he knew of when his dad was in the military WWi we went ( found ) his like 2nd or 3rd cousin she must have ben 80 or so
but after a bit of conversation and several more relatives showing up (phone calls he was there ) came out with a old candy tin full of photos from the 20"s and 30"s and we found the one of his dad sitting on a old army truck ,that was a good moment ( made countless copies and passed out to the family
any way we had that year to talk , share time , and stories like never before, we had worked together for 13 years early on in my life on Constitution sites off and on but never talked on the level we did his last year
I guess I could add I do love you and thanks for instilling good work efforts into me . also doing the best you and mom could with very little I know you both gave up a lot for us kids . to reinforce what i had told him
Not looking forward to it.
?Don?t touch that, boy. You?ll break it.?
I was 12 years old when I figured out my name wasn?t Get Coal.
Seriously, my dad was a man of few words. When my mom died, we were cleaning out her house and I found a diary he started. There were exactly 4 pages out of 365 that had one or two sentences.
I?m sure he never thought I?d amount to much. But he made sure we had everything we needed.
If he came back today, I?d tell him that I loved him. He?d probably say ?um-hmm?.
"Never do wrong to make a friend----or to keep one".....Robert E. Lee
maybe I could have saved your life if I had been with you
I would say, "I have always been proud of you and I hope you are proud of me."
I don't think I'd bother at this point.
He's been gone 39 years.
If I could, I'd love to sit and have coffee with him. I'd tell him that I think about him almost every day. I'd tell him that I love and miss him. And I'd love to sit with him as a friend, one last time.
Good advice Sir.
I'd tell my Dad, how much I Loved and missed him.
Ask him, "Are You Proud of Me?
I've done the best that I can to be "Proud" worthy. I've let myself down, and I can only hope my Dad, is still Proud of me. That is the best I can hope for.