My dad---

[100%Chevy]

To my dad---
It was 10 years ago today that you left us.
I miss you just as much today as the day you died!
Love,Mike.

[557B210]

May your dad RIP Mike....Hard to believe I lost mine 25 years ago now.

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[chevman57]

Mike i totally understand your sentiment. I lost my dad 26 1/2 yrs ago and still miss him a lot even today.
Terry

[Ratpackin]

Mike, It's been 10 years for me as well. He left us on Christmas day.
Hard to believe really. We may learn to accept the situation, but the hurt never stops does it?
Just continue living the life and enjoy, because you know he'd want you to.

[belairrudy]

Mike,
On April 2nd it will be 4 months since my Dad passed away. We just celebrated hais 68th B-Day on March 25th. That was a tough day. My Dad and I were best of friends. People say time heals all wounds.... I don't think so. I don't agree... I believe you learn how to adjust your life without them being here with us. But we will NEVER heal!!!!!

Belairrudy

[chevman57]

Time doesn`t heal the wounds, but it does heal the pain from the wound. I find it a lot easier now to think of my Dad and smile or laugh about something we did together or something he said, without always wanting to cry like i used to when thinking of those times.
Terry

[carls 56]

been 30 years for me since i lost him. think about him every day. sounds like we all had great dads. :tu

[wrenchbend1]

7i3pqJ2jqLoShortly before Dad Died I got to give him a ride in my 57, I drove it over 100 miles to give him a ride. It impressed him, He was a Caddiliac Man he still let me know it after the ride ! I miss him always ,I am where i am because of him.
Here's a song that helps me deal with the grief from time to time. It touches home ! Simply titled: The Walk.....

[petes83usa]

My Grandfather was like a father to me. He died in 1983 , the year my daughter was born and he held his first great grand daughter a week before he died.....I think of him every day and sometimes have dreams with him in them and I believe this is some form of communication for me.......pete

[NickP]

My father died about 15 years ago. I miss him terribly. He never really had time to be a Dad, or at least I never thought he did. Daddy was 91 when he passed. He only had two jobs in his life, protecting this great country and insuring those that continued to do so after he retired.

He fought in WW II and Korea and almost went back when Viet Nam broke out and the President requested him to. Mom pitched such a fit that he decided not to.

As time passed and my childhood vanished, so did our relationship. Much to his disdain, I married, had kids, divorced (shoulda listened to him on that one), played at college, remarried and had more kids and played some more with college. I learned so much from him; but while I was learning his teachings, I paid no attention.

I can still hear him telling my kids all of his stories and thinking what a great man. As I finally matured ten years ago at 52, I finally understood and realized how great a Dad he was to me. Gawd I miss him.

My childhood is nothing but a fleeting memory. My fathers memory is engrained within me like a granite stone tablet from a higher source. Thanks Dad. I miss you.

A few weeks back, I was at home (Mom’s in El Paso) going through some paperwork and assisting Mom with her needs while she is in the Nursing Home. I found a letter. This letter was from Mom back in 1947. It was to her Mom and described the process of finding me over in Germany (I am adopted) and how Daddy was with me as an infant. Never in my wildest dreams would I have ever thought my early years were so grand. How Mom described Daddy and me was beautiful.

I miss you Daddy. I love you. Sorry I didn’t do better as your child.

[wraplock]

I worked with my day from the time I was 13 years old and boy did we have some blow ups! He was the smartest, toughest man I ever knew. He came to this country at the age of 8 years old with all his possesions in one cardboard box. He won scholarships to several colleges but couldn't go because he had to help his family scrape out a living. He retired a wealthy man at the age of 55. The good lord took him from me 11 years ago. He survived a debilitating stroke that left him with the mind of a child for a year and a half before the second stroke took him....what a cruel joke. But.. I talk to him every day...sometimes when I'm not sure what I should do I can hear his voice telling me "you know what you have to do..just do it!" Some day he will greet me and hopefully we will share another round of Martinis..and I'll get him all caught up on his grandchildren. Until that day...we deal with the pain. I'm sorry for your loss.

Don

[dwight morris]

Belairrudy and I are in the same boat. My dad died 11-20-09, just a couple of weeks before his. Im still dealing with the legal issues, which to me,
seems to prolong the struggle, but Im doing it for dad.......

[Tuned55]

You know, they say losing a loved one is part of live and that life is not fair. If it was fair the horse would ride half the time. It's been just over one year since we lost our son. I've since learned it often shatters a person clear to your inner sole. I don't believe there is any getting over the loss of a close family member. It changes a person forever, some of it for the better but mostly we adapt as best we can. I for one am anxiuos to be with my son again. For all of us that know the emptyness and pain. I believe when it's our time we will look back at our time here and think of it as brief moment of pain as well as the joy we once had. As for now, some good days, some not so good.

May God bless you all

[wrenchbend1]

You know, they say losing a loved one is part of live and that life is not fair. If it was fair the horse would ride half the time. It's been just over one year since we lost our son. I've since learned it often shatters a person clear to your inner sole. I don't believe there is any getting over the loss of a close family member. It changes a person forever, some of it for the better but mostly we adapt as best we can. I for one am anxiuos to be with my son again. For all of us that know the emptyness and pain. I believe when it's our time we will look back at our time here and think of it as brief moment of pain as well as the joy we once had. As for now, some good days, some not so good.

May God bless you all

If you lose your parent you become an orphan,
if you lose your wife or husband you become a widow,
there is no word if you lose your child ....
a sorrow i cannot begin to comprehend
my deepest sympathies
Dave

[100%Chevy]

To all of you-You don't know how much better reading your posts have made me feel!
I made my post about my dad because there just isn't anywhere else to do it.
I felt I had to say something to someone somewhere!
Reading your posts makes me feel much less alone and I can see by the way you guys have "Opened up" that I'm not the only one.
Since 1991,so many of my family has passed away that I can't stand going to funerals anymore.
When someone loses a loved one,even on here,I can't make myself respond to them,even though my heart goes out to them.And I appologize for that.
It's good to know there's people who care.
Thanks,Mike.

[auggie56]

My dad and I were not not close, untill I was in my mid twenties. But we made up for lost time, and never let the past ruin a good time to be together.

[NickP]

To all of you-You don't know how much better reading your posts have made me feel!
I made my post about my dad because there just isn't anywhere else to do it.
I felt I had to say something to someone somewhere!
Reading your posts makes me feel much less alone and I can see by the way you guys have "Opened up" that I'm not the only one.
Since 1991,so many of my family has passed away that I can't stand going to funerals anymore.
When someone loses a loved one,even on here,I can't make myself respond to them,even though my heart goes out to them.And I appologize for that.
It's good to know there's people who care.
Thanks,Mike.