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I know that it has been a long time since you passed away and sometimes days like this tended to be rather somber. Still, I do happen to think of you often even without days like this.
I guess I have to regard you in many ways as a special breed of man. You got shot while parachuting into hostile territory back in World War Two. You got a Purple Heart when I think you should have had a purple testicle after you got one of them shot by enemy gunfire.
Still, that one testicle, your left one I might add, was enough to sire five children, including twins in your late in 40's.
I am sure that you can imagine that it's just as well you are not here on this earth, given all of the events that had transpired the last few years. Do I have the kind of strength and character that you hand? I can only hope that I least have some measure of in my veins, though I happen to think so especially when one has a father who could be so masculine even after losing one of his stones.
At any rate we will see each other again. As a veteran, I will see to it that when it comes time for me pass, that my remains weak placed in the same cemetery and has your own.
In the meantime when I well make it a point to frame a certificate honoring your life and the sacrifices that you have made as a veteran. I can't help but smile when I see who signed it: William Jefferson Clinton.
Happy Veterans Day, Dad.
Your son and fellow vet:
John.
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