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The happiest and saddest moments of your life
Posted on 5/18/14 at 10:53 am
Posted on 5/18/14 at 10:53 am
I am sitting here watching Surviving Katrina on the heroes channel and it got me to thinking about the happiest and saddest moments of my life. My list is: Happiest,The birth of my children and my marriage day. And the saddest is the death of my father,9/11 and now in retrospect Katrina. These things will stand out to me for the rest of my life.
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Posted on 5/18/14 at 10:54 am to papasmurf1269
Birth of a child is overwhelming joy.
Posted on 5/18/14 at 10:57 am to AtlantaLSUfan
quote:I never knew that I could love so unconditionally.
Birth of a child is overwhelming joy.
Posted on 5/18/14 at 11:01 am to papasmurf1269
Posted on 5/18/14 at 11:05 am to papasmurf1269
quote:
I never knew that I could love so unconditionally.
that is a good thing, because if it weren't unconditional, you'd hate them after about the first week...
Posted on 5/18/14 at 11:05 am to papasmurf1269
Happiest
Birth of child (by far)
Saddest
Miscarriage of second child with my wife having to go into hospital, and putting our dog down within a few weeks of one another. My wife and I basically first hung out in school to take her to the beach when she was a puppy. Was there for every step in our lives together. Having our young son around helped immensely with both.
Birth of child (by far)
Saddest
Miscarriage of second child with my wife having to go into hospital, and putting our dog down within a few weeks of one another. My wife and I basically first hung out in school to take her to the beach when she was a puppy. Was there for every step in our lives together. Having our young son around helped immensely with both.
This post was edited on 5/18/14 at 11:07 am
Posted on 5/18/14 at 11:06 am to papasmurf1269
Birth of my child, death of my dog.
Posted on 5/18/14 at 11:06 am to papasmurf1269
Nb4 saddest 1/9
Posted on 5/18/14 at 11:07 am to Spankum
quote:Boy, you ain't lying. And for most of the next sixteen or so years.
that is a good thing, because if it weren't unconditional, you'd hate them after about the first week...
Posted on 5/18/14 at 11:09 am to Spankum
quote:
that is a good thing, because if it weren't unconditional, you'd hate them after about the first week...
Indeed. I think I've said something like this to my son a few times already. 
Posted on 5/18/14 at 11:10 am to papasmurf1269
Happiest
3 years ago sitting on the beach in Costa Rica with my Dad after smoking the sails, mahi, and marlin
Saddest
Several family/friend deaths over the years. I can't compare
Eta: a couple of weeks ago a dear friend of mine lost his dad unexpectedly to a heart problem. He was like my second dad growing up and really was one of the greatest guys I knew. I cried for about 2 days.
3 years ago sitting on the beach in Costa Rica with my Dad after smoking the sails, mahi, and marlin
Saddest
Several family/friend deaths over the years. I can't compare
Eta: a couple of weeks ago a dear friend of mine lost his dad unexpectedly to a heart problem. He was like my second dad growing up and really was one of the greatest guys I knew. I cried for about 2 days.
This post was edited on 5/18/14 at 11:17 am
Posted on 5/18/14 at 11:20 am to papasmurf1269
Happiest - March 19, 1982, the birth of my son.
Saddest - September 11, 2001. Lost people I know in NYC and had many friends who lost people at The Pentagon.
Saddest - September 11, 2001. Lost people I know in NYC and had many friends who lost people at The Pentagon.
Posted on 5/18/14 at 11:20 am to papasmurf1269
When I found this website.
Posted on 5/18/14 at 11:22 am to IonaTiger
Posted on 5/18/14 at 11:26 am to IonaTiger
quote:I lost no one there,but it affected me greatly.
September 11, 2001. Lost people I know in NYC and had many friends who lost people at The Pentagon.
Posted on 5/18/14 at 11:32 am to papasmurf1269
Lots of happy times. Deaths of my dad and my lab were the worst.
Posted on 5/18/14 at 11:37 am to papasmurf1269
I have mixed feelings about 9/11, my first child was born that day. So while everyone was freaking out my wife was in labor.
My worst was 03, divorce, my parents dying, losing my job and my kids all in a couple of months. I pretty much self-destructed and in some ways have never recovered.
My worst was 03, divorce, my parents dying, losing my job and my kids all in a couple of months. I pretty much self-destructed and in some ways have never recovered.
Posted on 5/18/14 at 11:37 am to papasmurf1269
quote:
I lost no one there,but it affected me greatly.
I have to believe that it had a profound affect on us all. As a native New Yorker, I remember the skyline before the WTC was built; while it was being built; and the terrible day I watched on TV as it came down. Obituaries ran in the Staten Island Advance (which I read online) for months. Staten Island lost a complete fire company.
Before 9/11 the only building in D.C. that I turned to look at every time I passed it was The White House. Since that day, the only building I turn to look at every time I pass it is The Pentagon.
The day was really no more personal to me than to most Americans -- and far less personal to me than to those who lost immediate family members. But to this day, I cannot look at the NYC skyline, or think of all the people who were killed and injured in NYC; Arlington, Virginia; and Shanksville, Pennsylvania without tearing up a bit.
Posted on 5/18/14 at 11:38 am to papasmurf1269
Remember it like it was yesturday.
Posted on 5/18/14 at 11:42 am to Spankum
quote:
that is a good thing, because if it weren't unconditional, you'd hate them after about the first week...
when our son was born my sis n law got us a magnet that says "the first 40 years of parenthood are the hardest"
i believe it
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