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Subject: [Leica] Father's Day
From: bjq1 at mac.com (Bernard Quinn)
Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2016 21:28:35 -0400
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Tina,

Thank you for sharing this. I do not mean that as a cliche. My Mom and Dad 
were married a week before Pearl Harbor. I had never reflected on how WW II 
might have effected them.

My Dad had a lot of artist in his soul. One of his best friends commanded a 
wing of bombers during the war. On their way to Europe he and his squadron 
flew over the plant where my Dad worked as a farewell salute. They never 
made it across the ocean. It effected Dad very much. Of course it did.

Thanks,

Barney

Barney Quinn, WK3Z
C: (301) 775-1386
H: (301) 654-0938

> On Jun 18, 2016, at 9:14 PM, Tina Manley <tmanley at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> My father and mother both died from alcoholism. It was tough and there is 
> still a lot of resentment but I'm beginning to understand that life during 
> WWII and after profoundly affected everybody including my idealistic young 
> parents. I would not want to be in their shoes today.
> 
> Tina
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
>> On Jun 18, 2016, at 8:36 PM, Barney Quinn <bjq1 at mac.com> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> The last thing my Dad said to me when he dropped me off at college was 
>> that he would see me in two week because I was stupid and I was certain 
>> to flunk out. I made this portrait  of him in 1966 when I was in Graduate 
>> school. He was a brilliant engineer and a very successful executive. It 
>> is quite probable that you are alive today because of his work with 
>> antibiotics and vaccines. This, however, happened about eleven o?clock in 
>> the morning and that was a bit late in the day to find him sober. i want 
>> to say to fellow sufferers that I totally get it. I understand why you 
>> are standing by the far corner of the grill with a quiet tear in your 
>> eye. I am holding you in my heart. Those of you who have a problem with 
>> drugs or alcohol know it in your heart even if you can?t yet admit to 
>> your self. I beg you to get your self some help and put your 
>> relationships with those whom you love right. Ask your self this. Fifty 
>> years from now do I want someone on Facebook posting, ?Thanks for the 
>> pain, the anxiety, and the memories?? I love you Dad, but you didn?t make 
>> it easy.
>> 
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Barney/Dad.jpg.html 
>> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Barney/Dad.jpg.html>
>> 
>> 
>> Comments and Criticisms Welcome!
>> 
>> Barney
>> 
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Replies: Reply from tedgrant at shaw.ca (Ted Grant) ([Leica] Father's Day)
In reply to: Message from bjq1 at mac.com (Barney Quinn) ([Leica] Father's Day)
Message from tmanley at gmail.com (Tina Manley) ([Leica] Father's Day)