Father's Day - June 18th

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"For over 30 years Andy Rooney was a staple in the home of "60 Minutes" viewers. Erica Hill and Jeff Glor talk to his son, Brian about life with his father."

The Early Show - Andy Rooney's son on his father's legacy (Click on "WATCH ON YOUTUBE")

 

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Neil Armstrong with his father Stephen, and son Mark, outside their home 1965

Mark Armstrong reflects on father's legacy, making of 'First Man' (Video)

 

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Here in Australia, we don't celebrate Father's Day until 3rd September. The going joke was, "When is Mother's Day'" ? and the answer was, "9 months after Father's Day".

Just want to wish all the fathers on the Seniors Forum a great day and hope you get well and truly spoilt.

 

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One whisky bottle has arrived already - but alas I have to wait until 18th!

 

[Della]

My vote for father of the year. This SWFL eagle's mate went missing presumed dead when the eaglets were just a few days old. All the
nest watchers thought it would be impossible for him to hunt for food to feed the little ones while still keeping them warm enough and safe from predators, but he did it and they safely fledged on time. These days he's teaching them to fish at the edge of the pond.

Here they are just after she went missing:

And he raised them to become these great big typical teenagers, hungry all the time:

 

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George S. Patton III followed his father’s military footsteps.

"In early June 1944, while training troops for impending battles in Normandy, U.S. Gen. George S. Patton penned a letter to his only son, George S. Patton III, who was then studying at West Point. In that brief father-son "sermon" on courage on the battlefield, Patton told the 20-year-old, "Cowards are those who let their timidity get the better of their manhood. You will never do that because of your bloodlines on both sides" [source: McKay and McKay]. "

"A year later, Gen. Patton was killed in a car accident in Germany, but his son's military career continued, and he eventually earned the rank of Major General after fighting tours in the Vietnam and Korean wars [source: Stout]. And indeed, combat ran in the family as the 1944 letter attested; the elder George S. Patton Sr., George S. Patton III's grandfather, was a Confederate colonel in the Civil War [source: Patton]."

 

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We don't observe Father's day, but that would suit me fine - a day off from cooking dinner.

 

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Happy Father’s Day to all … enjoy your special day.

 

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Frank Sinatra’s Father’s Day message

"The other kind of father. Biological. Or “Pop,” as he put it in the column he wrote for Father’s Day, which appeared in the Chicago Daily News June 21, 1947. And while the Daily News had a healthy circulation, I’m probably the only one who remembers it, because he wrote it at my request – a guest column to run in place of my column. Mine being directed to high school and college students, and this being the bobbysox era, it was appropriate with a capital A."

"Sinatra’s devotion to his children may have played a role in his wanting to write the Father’s Day column. And his own experience, possible observations of other fathers and children, may have played a part in what he wrote. I know only that an aide told me he wrote it while flying in for the benefit that brought him to town."

“Right now,” he wrote, “everybody’s kicking around the subject of Father’s Day. But that’s nothing new. The subject of Father’s Day is used to getting kicked around."

“That’s why it seems to me that Father’s Day ought to mean a lot more to you kids than just going out and buying Pop a sale tie. Believe me, the tie your Father’s interested in isn’t one he hangs around his neck. He’s more concerned about the tie that exists between you and him."

“He wants to know, if it’s a little frayed around the edges, whose fault it is. So after you’ve spent a fast buck and bought Dad 20 good cigars, give him what he really wants on Father’s Day: a little understanding, and a little evidence of your appreciation that the job of being a father is –” Frank Sinatra’s DNA was as much 2/4 time as double helix – no ad lib chorus."

“It combines the simpler duties of The Cop on the Beat, The Parish Priest, The Local Banker, Judge, Jury and, above all, Scapegoat for everything that goes wrong in your life."

“Pop’s always ‘to blame’ for what you’re not allowed to do and for ‘butting into your business’ when he sees you swerving into a wrong turn. And when some genius move of your own finally runs you into real trouble, chances are Pop’s to blame for not having warned you."

“So this Father’s Day, sit down and get to know your Old Man. Let him tell you how much he really is yours and that the word ‘old’ is actually part of becoming a man.”