DAD

Happy Fathers Day dad. Even though you never learned to use the internet it doesn’t matter anymore because you are over my shoulder reading this as I am typing it. My dad passed away this April at the tender age of 86, his COPD condition finally got he best of him.
Dad was a quiet farm boy from NE South Dakota, a WWll vet with 23 missions as a tailgunner in a B-24, a husband to my mom for 49 years, a dad for his three children for 47 years.
Dad and I shared many memories: goose hunting, pheasant hunting and last but certainly not least was walleye fishing on Lake Oahe back in the 80’s.Dad was a small business owner so his only real day off was Sunday, oh how he couldn’t wait for that Day when we could get up at 3am and drive the 170 miles to Gettysburg,SD to fish walleyes for 8 hours and then drive back to Watertown, we all referred to these trips as torture runs but we didnt care as it was time away. I miss DAD! Hope you get your limit today.

The remembering is what Fathers Day is all about.

to your Dad!

There are a lot of Dad’s looking over sons shoulders today.

Brian is right about a lot of dad’s looking over our shoulders. I lost my dad at the age of 10 to a heart attack, he was 39. Now…I’m 45 and many times I think back to all the “true men” who steped in, even with families of their own, had time to take a kid fishing or teach me something new, like my dad would have. I wish I could spend a day and take my dad fishing just once, even if it were at our farm pond with a cane pole catching bluegills that we always threw back, so he could see what I have become, and talk about all the things we didn’t get a chance to. I guess in a way I do every time I go out. I have my dad to thank for a good name, that I will do my best to uphold, and a good beginning in life. And thank you to all the other dads who helped me along the way…you all should get more than one day a year.

Great post. I lost my Dad several years ago to cancer and not a day goes by that I don’t think of him. I am most proud of the integrity and sence of fair play that he was known for all his life. Heres to all the dads out there, Thank you and God bless

Great post – thanks for sharing.