Murphy's Law
I was coming down the steps at home a couple weeks ago and paused to look at the pictures of my father hanging on the wall.
Hard to believe he’s been gone 36 years.
There was a shadow box with a picture of he and I that was taken on one of my birthdays. I was holding the baseball bat he and Mom had bought me, sporting a black eye from the time a few days earlier when I heroically stopped a friend’s fist with my face.
I was looking at his medals, including a Purple Heart for being wounded in battle. As we celebrated Veterans Day, it makes me proud to know my father did his part to serve the country.
He served during World War II, fighting in the Philippine Islands.
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