An Open Letter To My Father-Written on September 4, 2011 Sometimes I close my eyes and try to see your face. Many times I can, but others it escapes me. I can always hear your voice though. I hear it in my own and in the wisdom given to me by others. I can feel your smile in the smiles of others who are responding to the one I show to them, which you gave me. I feel your love in the love I give to my children, whom you will never meet, but they will know you. I will tell them all that I know and remember. I think about how unfair it was that you were taken from us ten years ago then I remember that “fair is where you go to ride the rides” and you weren’t taken just removed. You taught me that life goes on, and it has. Ten years of life that has changed and rearranged so much that you wouldn’t recognize a lot of it were you to come visit us now. I have finally become a man, one that I think you could be proud of. I know you were proud of me then, but I feel that I am on my way to becoming the type of man I had built you up to be. So, in my ten years without you I have discovered some truths: • You might have been my superman, but you were only a man. • Just because I am your son does not mean I MUST model my life after yours. • The life lessons you gave me could not have been given to me in any other way. • You are the best possible model of a man that I could have asked for, not just for the great things you did but also for your faults. • You were the best Dad in the whole world, until I had kids. I Love and Miss You, Dad

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