Remembering My Father

After mentioning that my father was a Vietnam veteran in my review of her book, Mrs. Lieutenant: A Sharon Gold Novel, Phyllis Zimbler Miller asked me to write a guest post for her Mrs. Lieutenant blog discussing what it was like growing up in the home of a war veteran and some of the war stories my father told me. My father's been dead for almost 9 years, and I've tried in the past to write something--anything--about him, always coming up short. Until now.

There are so many more things to be said about my father, and what I wrote does not come close to showing how caring he was, how he was a hard worker and an excellent provider, and most importantly, a wonderful husband and father. It's so hard to write about someone I miss so much, but even the little I wrote was cathartic. Thanks, Phyllis, for giving me the opportunity to immortalize a little bit of the man I knew and will love forever. I'd nearly forgotten his voice, his face, all the little things, but writing about him helped me to remember.

You can read my "tribute" to my father by clicking here.