super bowl: Football Season Begins: A Time Once Again to Remember Dad - 09/08/11 10:37 AM
My Dad, for whom I was named, was born on February 25, 1931, in Kearney, NJ.  He and my mother married in 1956 and moved to Burbank, CA, where I was born.
 
Sadly, Dad chose his vices over his family.  I never did get to know him well.  My sister and I did talk with him by phone during our adult years and even visited on occasion but Dad remained an enigma to us.  But there were two things that I did know about him:  he was proud of his Purple Heart service as a Marine in the Korean War … (5 comments)