Happy Fathers Day.....here's to our dads, and the dads some of us get to be.

[NRaleighLiberal]

http://nctomatoman.weebly.com/1/post/2012/06/thoughts-on-fathers-day.html

[bluestateguy]

1. In past years I have had to address this issue very gently on DU

No matter how carefully I would try to wordsmith my Father's Day message, somebody would chime in, offended, lamenting that his or her father was a drunken, deadbeat, violent loser.

So I now keep my mouth shut on Father's Day.

[NRaleighLiberal]

3. Well, I realized that when I posted...but what the hell - wanted to share my msg/pics for the day.

If it gets flamed, so be it (I am brave, if not always cautious or wise!)

[RC]

2. Father's day message from my daughter.

[center]

Happy Father's Day!!! Sorry,
I couldn't find an actual Father's Day card that wasn't really lame and about golfing or fishing.
Way to not conform to father stereotypes![/center]

[NRaleighLiberal]

4. very cool!

[RockyMtnGuy]

5. I almost forgot...

I woke this morning, there was an ad about Father's Day on the radio, as more of reflex I grabbed my phone to make the call to hear him say "hello sunshine," then remembered this would be me first Father's Day without him. I miss that old man , I miss my friend.

[blaze]

6. Happy Fathers Day Dad

We lost him two years ago... at 89.

He was everything you would want a father to be. Loving, compassionate, available... Mom says he would to ANYthing around the house except diapers. LOL That was the one chore he couldn't handle. He got hooked up online before "online" meant anything and introduced his kids to the internet (via Compuserve at the time).

Thanks Dad.

You did good.

[KatChatter]

7. My father is an

abusive alcoholic and a butt reaming asshole of the highest order.


Sorry to be a downer but that is reality for many in America today.

Happy Father Day!

[NRaleighLiberal]

8. Yes, understood - my wife's dad was a mean alcoholic -

he did dry out and they made some sort of peace before he left the earth.

[lumberjack_jeff]

10. One day a year.

One fucking day a year. Give it a fucking rest, alright?

[lumberjack_jeff]

9. Kicking and recommending.

Surely there are more than four of us who aren't abusive drunks and/or had abusive drunks for fathers who could also recommend this. Maybe we could get equal time on the greatest page.

It's only one day a year. Maybe we could give the usual rhetoric a one-day break and limit ourselves to the other 364 to explain how much fathers suck.

[NRaleighLiberal]

11. Thanks....much appreciated.