Reply #114: I still get choked up thinking of The Leader of the Band and my dad

[Riverman]

He was a decent hardworking, blue-collar Irishman who with my mother raised five of us who lived to be 87 and worked from his teens to 83. Dan Folgelberg was a troubador of our times who was a big time feeler, empath who could put those feelings of caring so tenderly to words in song. And, to die so young, I'm just a year younger and have recently been "cleared" after being sucessfuly treated for prostate cancer at 50! Anyone's death is sad, but it seems so unfair for the good ones to go so young. I have deep gratitude for what he added to our lives in the short time he had. Much love to his family and friends!