Today is Sunday, June 19th... Father's Day.
At church, we have a group of college students from CA who are here to help us with Vacation Bible School. One of the other projects they've come here to work with is International Workers Outreach - the outreach project that we are working with for the international students here working at Six Flags.
Tonight, we had them handing out Welcome Bags to the students at their hotels. There's a group from China and a group of Ecuador students at two hotels in Waukegan.
Because the hotels are right off of Green Bay Road and about 3 minutes from the cemetary that dad is buried at, I decided to stop down and say Happy Father's Day from us all.
I took a rose from dad's garden because I thought he'd like it -- I think its one of his Peace roses that he liked so much :)
Happy Father's Day!
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I don't think Dad was a PFC when he was discharged, was he?
If thats what his papers said... we didn't tell them anything - we just turned over all his discharge papers.... What does that mean -- is that like that connecting pipe stuff that plumbers use?
wow - no. It means 'private first class' which is the lowest possible rank you can get. I cannot believe he left the military with the rank of 'PFC' - especially knowing some of what he did overseas. Has Unc or Aunt Bev seen this? I wonder what they had to say.
But first class can't be bad.... I mean, its hard to fly first class and if you say you're going "first class", everyone thinks you're special. And if you're a "first class citizen" it usually means you got an award or something. And - hey, when someone says "you're a first class moron", that means you're that best of all morons. I take that as the highest compliment - the first class thing.... :) Its just a rank, dad had lots of other things going for him. Besides, Unc saw it and I didn't hear her say anything.....
Well, Alison, let's just say that Gomer Pyle was PFC, remember? Not too good . . . HA! Thanks for the pictures.
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