My Dad, being a ship captain (for oil exploration) for forty years, has spent two-thirds of his life travelling around the world.. My siblings and I were brought to life when he met my Okasan in one of his ventures..

My father is the selfless type.. Despite his many years of work experience he never got to reward himself with superfluous gifts.. He instead brought my siblings and I in very good schools in my country..

Souvenirs from around the world are his simple pleasures.. He got miniature pyramids in Egypt which my siblings and I broke when we were small.. Now, my son is in the process of breaking his hand-painted ostrich eggs which he got from Africa..

He is so selfless that when I decided to go to another country to restart my life, he put aside his active career to be in charge of my son.. I know now he still misses the waves.. He still misses the sound of drilling machines.. He still misses the feeling that all his crew is relying upon him.. Retirement came early for him because of my happiness..

nice thread lovely fabian,

oh it touches me alot, esp that my daddy is abroad these couple of weeks,

I do miss him,

what can I say about him, he is the best, he is my ideal,

we have an arabic proverb which says "Every girl is a a huge fan for her father"

daddy is an outgoing person, generous,  he seems to be tough but really warm hearted, he has a great sense of humour,

I can never forget how he always stood beside me at the hard times, 

 at exams days, even when he is tired after working at day, he would take me & drives me by his car to the uni, & in the road he would talk to me & try to cheer me up & reliefs me from any exam pressure,

& at the results day, I can feel the joy & happiness in his eyes when I tel him that I passed,

he did the best to raise me & my 5 siblings, taught us good morals & offered us a good life means,

generally he is a beloved man, all my family likes him, I even witness the way he treats my grandparents & I wish I can be as good to my parents when they get old as he does..

 I thank Allah for giving me a great father, hope I can never let him down..

Happy father 's day :)

Happy Father's day

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Father's day in Brazil isin the 2nd Sunday of August!

About my dad.. he was almost like Lovely Fabian's dad :) He worked 30 years for the Navy (since he as 18) :D Another Seaman! He brought me also things from Africa and other countries from Latin America like coins, postcards, a black barbie from Ivory Coast (i remember how girls used to envy me for that as we could ony find blond barbies here), etc etc. That was when he travelled.. when he was in Brazil, always he arrived home tired but he had time to teach me my homework, tell new things, jokes.. :D I always loved him so much!! Now he is retired and he has 24 hours for me now :D My private driver lol.. that's it :)

“ I even witness the way he treats my grandparents & I wish I can be as good to my parents when they get old as he does.." –Rosella

The true test of becoming a good child is when your parents grow old..

The true test of becoming a good parent is when you have children yourself..

"at exams days, even when he is tired after working at day, he would take me & drives me by his car to the uni, & in the road he would talk to me & try to cheer me up & reliefs me from any exam pressure….”

I still laugh whenever I remember my gradeschool spelling bee experience.. My father was my trainer, syllabicating to me the words during review, so that I will easily remember- "IMMEDIATELY : im-me-dia-te-ly.. immediately!" Then the first word given in the spelling bee was FUCSHIA.. IMMEDIATELY I got eliminated!!

"My private driver lol"—Monique

While mine is my private babysitter!

"Families wash Vietnam memorial to honor fallen fathers:

Sons, daughters, grandchildren and other relatives of those who died in the Vietnam War gathered before dawn this Father's Day to remember their fallen relatives in a unique way.

With brushes, mops, hoses and soap, they set about cleaning the granite wall of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. Their mission was to polish each of the more than 58,000 names of Americans who died.

One of the 25 people at work was Wayne Jones, whose father was an Army aviator and whose plane crashed in bad weather after having returned from a courier flight on August 17, 1967 – about seven months after he arrived in Vietnam.

It was the second trip to the memorial for Jones, from Houston, Texas.

"I have spent all these years since 1967 celebrating Father's Day without my father, and being here with this group gives me a means to honor him and I just feel really good to be here," Jones said.

"This has never happened on Father's Day," Jones said. "What we do is we wash any of the dirt or whatever that may have gathered… so that the wall has the reflective capability of polished granite. So that we can feel, I guess, a clean start to our Father's Day."

The event was part of the commemoration of the 20th anniversary of a group called Sons and Daughters in Touch, a support group for the children of service members who died or who are classified Missing in Action during the Vietnam War.

Roughly 20,000 service members, about one third of the more than 58,000 military personnel who either were killed or MIA in Vietnam, were fathers, according to the group.

Tony Cordero, who helped form the organization, was 4 years old when his dad's plane disappeared – on Father's Day.

"I think it's ironic that our dad was lost over Father's Day weekend, but more importantly for all of my friends, all of the sons and daughters from all over the country who come here this weekend, it's a Father's Day we didn't get to celebrate as children," Cordero told CNN.

"So while our moms filled that role for us, there wasn't the father figure, and so as little kids, Father's Day didn't have a whole lot of significance – and then you fast forward to today, and these folks have been able to change Father's Day meaning a little bit for themselves and their families," Cordero said.

While Jones was able to bury his father, others who gathered still do not have all of the answers.

Patti Rowley's father, Col. Charles Rowley, was an Air Force navigator shot down in 1970.

"It's an honor. It is the least I could do for all the men – not just my father, (but) all the men here, what they have done for us," Rowley said. "What a way to honor our fathers."

From across the country, about 1,000 people traveled to Washington this weekend to honor their fallen heroes.

At a ceremony, Army Chief of Staff Gen. George Casey Jr., whose own father was killed in 1970 when his command helicopter crashed in Vietnam, spoke to the relatives and honored their memories.

"I believe this monument has had a lot to do with ensuring that our father's sacrifices would be both remembered and appreciated," Casey said.

The families then placed roses at the base of the wall to honor their fathers and all the fallen."

happy father  day too all fathers

Happy Fathers Day!
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