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cheyennevh t1_j50jujs wrote

Reply to comment by LazyZealot9428 in A dad at a party during his sophomore year of college; 1982 by Mick_Stup

He graduated and taught me that hard work and dedication was key. He also taught me that kindness and empathy should be placed over everything else. He grew up in a blue collar family, and even though he built up this huge company before he died, he never forgot where he came from. He actually didn’t make any money for the first 10 years because he wanted to make sure his employees were getting paid what they deserved. We lived off my mom’s wages

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cheyennevh t1_j50j22f wrote

Reply to comment by my_name_is_forest in A dad at a party during his sophomore year of college; 1982 by Mick_Stup

This is actually my dad! He wasn’t in a frat, he played basketball, and even at this age, he spent his Saturdays volunteering at charities and helping with the Special Olympics. He married the nerdy accounting girl, and lost his hearing in his left ear after he saw a guy trying to force himself on a girl at a party and the dude clocked him on the side of the head. Around the time I was born, he had actually qualified to sail in the Olympics, but he didn’t go so that he could spend time with me. He taught me how to sail instead, he carried me around in a little backpack, and because I was adopted from a Creek reservation, he made sure to teach me my culture every chance he got. He was an amazing man through and through. Oh, and his name was Mike lol

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stsparky OP t1_j4yjlms wrote

Reply to comment by TheBigManFunk7997 in Dad in the Army Corp of Engineers circa 1944, he’ll be 100 this February. by stsparky

No. My friend’s dad was a Coastie up there then. A family friend was a radar man in Hawaii. Another survived Pearl Harbor in the Raleigh.

Dad served at Fort Ordnance designing amphibious tanks for the Pacific Theater. He had a visit from Eisenhower when he came down with chickenpox. I spend time with him trying to trigger his memories.

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