I'll get straight to the point. I haven't felt like posting for a while. My father passed away last month and it is still affecting me. For all I know it may affect me for the rest of my life. I don't know. I've never been thru this before.
He would not have wanted a whole lot of attention to this. There was no published obituary. I got the "get up here right now" phone call from San Jose, and Sheila and I were on the road the very next day. I got up there in time to see him. He knew I was there but he couldn't talk.
I can derive comfort in knowing that he is with the Good Lord. Some of his friends at church found out for the first time, during his memorial service, that he was heavily involved with Project Apollo and the moon shots. As proud as he was for getting to do that, he wouldn't talk about it. Oh, he would talk about it to me, and told me some stories.
I can't tell you which is worse......the buildup to this event, or the aftermath. Both are unpleasant.
As for what he would want the rest of us to do, he would want the rest of us to be good citizens, be the best Americans we could be, and to do our best.
If there's anyone out there who is going to accuse me of being a good citizen......which I won't accuse myself of.........my dad had something to do with it.
