My dad once smuggled an English military nurse out of Japan on the back of his motorcycle onto a cargo plane while running from MPs. He was an MP.
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When I was a teenager my dad said that while he preferred I went and became a doctor, what really mattered was that I brought 'Honor to the Family Name'.
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Rewrite: In the 1960s, my dad went spearfishing and traded fish for beer in the Florida keys. This was a regular (multiple times a week) occurrence.
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At the age of 70 years old, with two fake hips, severe osteoarthritis, and a disk in his neck, my dad still deadlifted 315 lbs.
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My dad was tried by court martial two or three times, beat the charges all times, and was medically discharged after being turned into a fucking pretzel when Danang Ammo dump went off. One tour Korea, two in Nam, two others I can't remember
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My dad beat the IRS in tax court while representing himself.
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My reading of the Great Books of the Western World is inspired by my dad, who has a print copy--and he's probably read about 50% of them over the years.
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When I got my first job out of college, working on a Naval base (civilian R&D), he looked up the commander of the base and tole me 'You'd better hope he doesn't remember your last name'
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My dad, uh, never made it above whatever (at the time) was the top enlisted rank despite showing great potential for going for a degree + OCS because he regularly told officers they were fucking morons to their faces. He didn't care, either.
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At the age of 13, when his own father passed away (1948!), my dad worked a job to help his mom out with income, and hung out with two crowds: the hotrodders, and the Yeshivah kids.
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My dad has done handstands on the back of a moving car, on top of a ferris wheel, and on the edge of Niagara Falls.
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My dad trained for the PanAm games, though didn't compete. He WAS a regional Navy powerlifting champion in the 1960s though.
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My dad is a 33rd Degree Master Mason of the Scottish Rite, as well as a Shriner. So was his father. I'm not eligible to continue that tradition, but I will try to carry its spirit (as well as pass down to any of my own children who are eligible).
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My dad was a huge playboy, without going into numbers...pretty sure three digits. Didn't figure out til my twenties how he had 'seen' all these different women.
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When he got out of six weeks of traction and left the military. he got a law degree and spent 18 years as a contract officer for the govt. When he retired and immediately regretted it, he volunteered legal time for the next ten years for retirees while acting on the side.
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I love the man. I am who I am because of who he is. Is he perfect, and have I always liked him? No. People of such intense character often have aspects that you don't like so much. But god damn do I respect him as a person and love him as a father.
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He brought our part of the family back from effectively zero/negative worth to upper middle class, and did all the right moves (bad luck) to take it lower upper. It's my duty to grow that again, and pass it on through my children.
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Shit, I remembered another one. He trained in the original Gold's Gym in California in the 60s.
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When I was 16, I was kinda fat after a semester away at college. My dad called me a fatass, told me to lift weights, threw a plan at me, and, well, I turned into what I am now.
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And, with all this, he remains a devout though not particularly organized Jew. If you've seen Fiddler on the Roof, well, he has a similar relationship to G-d as Tevye (less observant, though). Oh, and he's been in Fiddler three times in community theater.
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Timeline unclear, but at some point my dad learned FORTRAN IV. He also had a 3 digit ARPANET number.
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I guess going back to the anime comment above, at various age points in my life my dad might not have been too far from Joseph Joestar. Hell, when he was 69 he biked 284 miles in 6 days across California with me.
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He has trouble with range of motion these days. Still hit a 300 deadlift in late October though.
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