re: Guys. How do you feel you measure up to your dad as a man

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While he may have been an incredible guy, a lot of this is just hero worship through the eyes of a child.

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Fair enough

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Never discussed politics? I'm sure he had conversations his child wasn't privy to

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No, my dad was a man of few words to begin with. He didnt suffer the opinions of others and certainly wasnt going to engage in discourse

He never once told me who hes ever voted for in an election. Use to annoy the shite out of me but some older guys are just like that

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I’m more loyal, more social, more family-oriented, more generous and less ambitious.

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There are many worse things to be.

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Hard to beat a guy who enlisted a day after Pearl Harbor at 17, fought in the Pacific for 3 years, came home, and started a wildly successful business.

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Anyone that enlisted a day before him has him beat.

I’m not a guy but I wanna talk about how awesome my dad was too. He died last February of a massive brain aneurysm

He was the kindest, most positive person you could ever meet. No one that ever met him didn’t like him. He just had a great personality and sense of humor and such a great laugh. He was always happy. Nothing ever got to him

He dropped out of school in 8th grade. He began his career roughnecking and worked his way up to directional driller which pays 300k a year. He gave all the credit for his financial success to God. He retired early a couple years before he died because my step mom got early dementia. He took good care of her and never got down about his situation

He had 4 daughters that weren’t always easy to be proud of but he always told us how proud he was of us and how much he loved us. He was my best friend. I called him anytime I had a problem or got stressed out and he made me feel better

I posted a pic of him a couple months ago and a poster I don’t know said “thanks for posting that. Your dad was a really great man.” That meant the world to me because he was

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on top of tending to 3000 acres of farm

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Where did he get this?

Mine isn't a bad man but he didn't make the best effort to stay in me and my siblings lives after he and my mother divorced.

Financially I'm far more successful.

As a parent I was way ahead.
But he had two stints of war, in Ww2, Korea.
He did what he felt he had to.
Volunteered 1936.
2 silver stars, North Africa and france, countless bronze, a purple heart over italy, day raid, & a distinguished flying medal, for glider with 82nd airborne at Normandy.
Incredible.
In mid to late 50s was training pilots.

I did what I thought best right out of school.

First thing: Edna schwartz memorial commune. A-
Joined an ashram. B+

I was front and center parenting. A1. Rain or snow.

My father and I were tied for first in physical fitness.

I got a lot from my dad.
Serious, hard lessons.

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surpassed him financially quite some time ago, which is meaningless. And i owe that largely to him as well

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As a parent, I wanted him to have a better life. This is part of it. I actually look up to my son, in many ways.

I have always strived to be a better father than he was. It’s pretty easy to do.