happy fathers day hornfans!

[meadowlark]

be blessed, be safe, and have big fun.
happy fathers day!​

 

[Dionysus]

Ha! Great image for today @meadowlark.

Also a good time to remember the dads who are no longer with us but who shaped our lives in important ways.

My dad signed up for the Navy in 1945. He was still a year too young to join but my grandmother signed the papers stating he was old enough, I think he was 16. Went to Okinawa for a while, was on an aircraft carrier, didn’t see any combat at that point but he just wanted to go do his part in the effort, and I always admired that. It was also a good way to get off the farm in Crockett which I think he was very eager to do at the time. He passed in 2004. I miss him.

It would be cool to hear some stories about other Hornfans dads.

 

[meadowlark]

^^^ i concur, the more stories.. the merrier!

 

[WorsterMan]

My Dad is 88 and very frail but mentally very alert. His father was a pharmacist in Waco and died when he was 7 years old so he mostly did not have a father growing up. I always wondered how hard that was for him.

His mother was left a widow to raise a young son during the depression. My Grandmother was strong and made it with my Dad taking small jobs here and there to help out. His father figure was his Grandfather who had a farm outside Cranfills Gap in central Texas - he spent his summers there and over the years shared with me, many stories of his time on that farm and how hard the work was. He told me many times, he decided very early on he did not want to be a farmer.

Upon graduation from Waco HS in 1943 he joined the Navy, become a Lt. JG and was responsible for an LST ship in the Pacific in the fall of 1944. He graduated from UT in 1949 on the GI Bill, married, raised 2 sons and has been a man many people admired and respected over the years.

I called him today and told him how much I love him.

 

[TheWalkingHorn]

My dad is the baby of 11 children. He is a native Austinite, and is one of the kindest, most generous people you will ever meet. He served in the National Guard before marrying my mom and having me in 1984. Although it is not his day job, my dad thoroughly enjoys working high school football games as well as the UT games. He has run chains here in Austin since '81 and then finally joined the Austin Chapter of football officials in '99. In the late 80s a friend of his from the Austin chapter brought him on at UT to work with the football program. He's done everything really from setting up the visitor's sideline to now working more closely with the officiating crew and making sure they're taken care of.

I am convinced that my dad is one of the few people that gets pure joy out of helping people. He will go out of his way to help the people he loves as well as total strangers. He's just that kind of guy. Until recently I thought my dad had been scheduled over and over on Christmas at his work (past 5 years or so), and when I asked why there wasn't a rotation my mom said that he'd been volunteering so that the guys with young kids could be off to spend the day with their little ones.

I am a total Daddy's girl (I still call him Daddy, even though I'm 30). This morning we went to a Mexican restaurant and ate a big breakfast, then we went back to my parents' house and he had me reading this:

Along with all of the high school football rankings and preseason predictions from the DCTF magazine. My pops.


Edit: oh yeah, and chances are ALL of you have seen my dad at some point because he stands on the visitor's north 25 yard line for every home game. When the home games are on my phone is always blowing up with people saying "I saw your dad on tv!!"

 

[Dionysus]

Now I'm gonna be looking for your dad @TheWalkingHorn

 

[NBHorn7]

What can I say about my dad that I haven't already said. He was a WWII vet, that flew many missions in the Army Air Corps, that included D-Day, Holland, relief of Bastogne, then Germany.

I posted that "Band of Brothers" video on the Movie Clips thread, showing the drop of the parrot troopers. It's frightening to just watch it, can't imagine actually being part of it, like dad was. What a totally different world it was for him, from a northeast Texas farm, to war torn Europe.

This is the first Father's Day without him, he has been gone since January, but it still doesn't seem right, to not see or speak to him on his day.