I brought this thread back from October last year just to share something with you all.
I haven't been very active on this forum as I was in the past. Fact I haven't actually went wheeling since 2010. Plan to get back in to it, but life has its ways of adding on to your daily grind.
All of you guys are awesome and showed sympathy, concerning, and compassion concerning the unexpected timing of my fathers passing. They say time heals, but many know it just takes a really long time. There is not a day goes by I don't think of my father and the fact he is not here anymore. It has been 6 months now and not much has changed, he is just not there anymore.
Back when I was making arrangements for my fathers burial I was stuck in a rut. He did get a free grave sight and headstone at Ft. Logan since he was a veteran. As I was looking at the options of what I could put on his headstone. Nothing appealed to me, or matched my father's personality. The typically sayings, which who knows how many people used those same statements just didn't really appeal to me.
My dad was friend to many, sometimes a little eccentric, a little crazy, always MAD about something, bark was always louder than his bite. In fact he was just a big grumpy teddy bear at heart, even though he didn't show it all the time.
He had a nickname he used for years, "The Mad Frenchman" which fit him in so many ways. So I decided to put that on there, to confuse those that didn't know him and to honor pretty much who he was.
So here lies THE MAD FRENCHMAN!
Thanks everyone for your support!
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