Author Topic: Dad Thread (Read 325 times)

midnight Target · « **on:** June 18, 2006, 12:18:10 PM »

This is the 2nd Father's day since my dad passed away. I think we all need to take a minute to remember the most important man in our lives.

That's dad on the left, 1943, he was a B-25 radio nav and a tower operator (ATC). His 2 best friends signed up with him. Joe (the sailor) became a doctor, Fred on the right was a B-29 bombardier, and a successful CPA. He was at dad's funeral last year.

This was about 10 years ago. He was the worst guitar player in the world. He knew "Pearly Shells" and "Lemon Tree". Everything else he ever played sounded like one of those 2 songs. I'd give anything to hear them again.

AWMac · « **Reply #1 on:** June 18, 2006, 12:23:37 PM »

MT <<>>
Mac

Sandman · « **Reply #2 on:** June 18, 2006, 12:25:29 PM »

Just got off the phone with my dad... he's doing well. He had a bout with prostate cancer about three years ago, but he's fully recovered. He's 66.

The week he finished his last radiation therapy, we went backpacking in the Emigrant Wilderness. I don't think he really enjoyed it, but we couldn't stop him from going. He's on the far right.

Captain Virgil Hilts · « **Reply #3 on:** June 18, 2006, 07:50:42 PM »

The second for me as well. Was at the cemetery today.

DREDIOCK · « **Reply #4 on:** June 18, 2006, 09:10:49 PM »

Mines been gone some 12 years now.

After he an my mother split when I was a teen he and I kinda had it out a couple years later and it wasnt untill about two years before I got married we even talked again. We eventually became friends but
We hadnt been close for a long time. But he really wasnt that way anyway.
and he kinda distanced himself from everyone

There were some good times, good things I remember.

But both good and bad I credit him for alot of things I am as a man. And some things I am not

I do miss him from time to time.
And I wish he coulda been around to see his grandchildren. Or even how I ended up turning out

GtoRA2 · « **Reply #5 on:** June 19, 2006, 09:45:17 AM »

5 years gone for me.......

I miss the old bastard.

AWMac · « **Reply #6 on:** June 19, 2006, 07:08:24 PM »

I called Dad yesterday also. He lost a right lung about a year ago to Cancer and still smokes.

I can't help to think at times when I get off the phone with him, is this the last time we talk?

Hell we've had our ups and downs thru life. He's Navy, I'm Army.... Our phone bills would jump sky high durning the Army/Navy Game... We'd fish and Hunt together. Drink and have a laff or two.

I dread the Day of our Final GoodBye... Love the Bastage thru all of it.

mac

DREDIOCK · « **Reply #7 on:** June 19, 2006, 07:50:07 PM »

LOL Hey MT. How old was your dad and his friends in that pic?
They look to be about 13 LOL

midnight Target · « **Reply #8 on:** June 19, 2006, 08:56:10 PM »

17 or 18.. right out of High School.

hehe.. he was 6 feet tall and weighed 130.

Captain Virgil Hilts · « **Reply #9 on:** June 19, 2006, 09:32:20 PM »

Got an email today. Ken Lloyd, P-38 pilot of the 80th FS Headhunters, died at 8:30 Sunday morning, Father's Day, of pulmonary fibrosis. Ken was a great friend, and a great man. His son sent me the news this morning, I near broke down at work. I knew it was coming, only a couple weeks ago Ken emailed me to tell me he was getting hospice care at home.

<<S>> Ken Lloyd

Neubob · « **Reply #10 on:** June 19, 2006, 09:36:19 PM »

Someone said this in an earlier thread...

The older I get, the smarter he gets. Every time I say something stupid or narrow, he amazes me with patience and understanding. I'm just afraid that when the day finally comes that I'm not afraid to say anything to the man, it'll already be too late.

<~~> Pop, and all Pops.~~