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Sunday, June 17, 2012

Daddy Happy Father"s Day

Well today is Father's Day, a day that I have not been able to celebrate since 1963....boy does time fly.

I only had my daddy for 12 years, he was killed a week after I turned 13.  Time has gone by so fast at times, and yet other time it seems like yesterday.  Certain holidays bring up the past more than others, this is one of them.

My father was a character, with a capital "C".  He was patriotic, adventurous, passionate, loving and funny.  When WWII broke out he tried to enlist in the USMC when he was only 15 and got sent back twice.  He finally got into the Merchant Marines at 16 and served a year before he was blown up off the coast of Trinidad and injured.  He was discharged with the injury and you would have thought that would be the end of his military service. Not daddy, he was only 17 when he enlisted in the USMC and was there at the end of WW2 and ended up in the Korean War.









I am very proud to be his daughter and to have had him for the twelve years that I did.  I wish I still had him so I could tell him this.
He was a young daddy, here is is with just the first 4 of his 6 children, but had an old soul from lots of experience.  

I was so excited when I was able to get his name and service time approved on the WWII memorial this week....he was my hero...and I felt he should be recognized for it.

Thank you daddy for teaching me to be tough, I find I have used that knowledge my whole life.
Happy Father's Day....