Dad's Birthday

[GypsmJim]

In the hospital I worked at in 2016 and 2017 there was often the smell of cherry pipe tobacco in the hallway where the original and deceased doctors had their portraits on the wall.

The doctor who smoked that particular tobacco died in 1986. I have worked in some haunted places and am very aware of the spirit inhabitants making their presence known. I have had tools move from the top of a condensate return pump to the hand wheel of a valve over 6 feet away. The closest person to me was over 50 feet away around 2 corners and up a flight of stairs.

I had a friend that claimed to be a psychic. I took her to a gun show once and she just followed me around from aisle to aisle. Then, she gasped and asked me what was in that box on that table. She said it upset her and we had to leave now. Something about death.

I said OK I'll meet you at the front door and I went back to investigate. Inside was a Nazi marked bayonet and it had obvious signs of blood pitting.

 

[jimbo1096]

I have three or four pipes I recently found that were Dads They still smell good when your nose passes the bowl, but he had a couple of Meerschaum pipes and I haven't been able to find them. I really like the longer ones that he had with a carved figure on the bowl. I'll keeping looking thru their stuff that I have at the house. Maybe I'll run across it one day. I also like you and like that cherry blend and now it's been mentioned I can sort of smell that smoke in my memory. My dad was born in 1909 so would be 116 last February. Happy birthday.

 

[Watertender]

I had a friend that claimed to be a psychic. I took her to a gun show once and she just followed me around from aisle to aisle. Then, she gasped and asked me what was in that box on that table. She said it upset her and we had to leave now. Something about death.

I said OK I'll meet you at the front door and I went back to investigate. Inside was a Nazi marked bayonet and it had obvious signs of blood pitting.

Some people don't believe. After my 1st wife's father died we would get a strong smell of cigarette smoke in the house periodically.

As far as your psychic friend, I believe it. Last month I was involved in something with several other people who have psychic ability and we all came to the same conclusions independently. We were separated and not allowed to talk to each other. We wrote our findings out and each coincided with the other. I can't release the details until some official investigation is completed but we all provided enough information to guide them in the right direction.

At one point I told the person who owned the property that I sensed graves and he said that his father and grandfather were buried about 50 feet from where we were standing. I also came up with the name of the person who built their house in 1912... It was an interesting day for sure.

 

[MaxMan]

Thanks so much. Made me stop and think once again about my dad. Very bittersweet. Dad didnt s,oke a pipe except for a short period trying to get off the cigs.

Thanks for posting this. I'm glad it made you reflect on your dad. Hopefully, there was more "sweet" than "bitter."

The bitterness was losing him after a long cancer battle. The sweet was the rest of it. He grew up poor. very poor. He said he waited for yesterday's Atlanta Constitution so he could have bottoms for his shoes. There is much more. But the libs now days that say poverty causes crime. If true Dad would have eclipsed Al Capone.

 

[Lt Choate]

Thanks so much. Made me stop and think once again about my dad. Very bittersweet. Dad didnt s,oke a pipe except for a short period trying to get off the cigs.

The bitterness was losing him after a long cancer battle. The sweet was the rest of it. He grew up poor. very poor. He said he waited for yesterday's Atlanta Constitution so he could have bottoms for his shoes. There is much more. But the libs now days that say poverty causes crime. If true Dad would have eclipsed Al Capone.

I really appreciate you posting that info. I completely understand now what the "bittersweet" comment came from and while I am sorry for all of the horrors of cancer that your dad endured and that you witnessed, I am glad that the relationship was solid. That is what you want to focus on and remember.

Your comment on his poverty rings very familiar with me. NONE of us can fully appreciate the hard times that our parents generation endured. Many/most grew up during the depression but some were so poor prior to that, that the shortages hardly moved the needle for them. Then, as if that wasn't enough, the second World War hits and more hard times.

We are so privileged and better off than they were that it is hard to wrap our minds around the contrast.

But you know what.......? They would have wanted us to have it better than they did and God bless them for that.

 

[stonebuster]

Thanks for posting this. I'm glad it made you reflect on your dad. Hopefully, there was more "sweet" than "bitter."

Been thinking about my dad too lately as his b-day is coming up in a week(May 27th) and he had quite a pipe collection when I was a kid. Mom didn't like the pipe smell so switched to Marlboros.He'd have been 105 on the 27th. Pacific WW2 army infantry vet who left college his freshman year to enlist after Pearl harbor. Like other's dads here, a member of "the greatest generation". Here with his mother who died while he was overseas. Happy birthday, dad.

 

[Lt Choate]

Been thinking about my dad too lately as his b-day is coming up in a week(May 27th) and he had quite a pipe collection when I was a kid. Mom didn't like the pipe smell so switched to Marlboros.He'd have been 105 on the 27th. Pacific WW2 army infantry vet who left college his freshman year to enlist after Pearl harbor. Like other's dads here, a member of "the greatest generation". Here with his mother who died while he was overseas. Happy birthday, dad.View attachment 73751

Wow...... left college to enlist after Pearl Harbor...... Back then, a college education was so very, very huge and for him to leave that was a mighty sacrifice. He must have seen some terrible action in the Pacific theater.
Happy posthumous Birthday to him and Thank God we had men like him in the 1940's..

 

[stonebuster]

Wow...... left college to enlist after Pearl Harbor...... Back then, a college education was so very, very huge and for him to leave that was a mighty sacrifice. He must have seen some terrible action in the Pacific theater.
Happy posthumous Birthday to him and Thank God we had men like him in the 1940's..

And the same to your father, another member of "the greatest generation." We must remind the young of the sacrifices made by men like them.