Yesterday marked Veteran’s Day across the United States: it also marked the 6th anniversary of my father’s passing in 2003. A proud veteran of World War II, he had lived a good and long life when he died at 96 years old.
He was born at a time before airplanes, MTV, Xerox photocopy machines, cell phones and even the Internet. None of those events seemed to impact him much – throughout most of his life he got great joy out of reading books and talking with people, both activities which have been done for centuries.… Read the rest