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A little about my father I know that everyone tends to feel that their father is special, and I know that I would need an entire website to say all that is worth saying about mine. I am not going to build an entire website though, I am only going to note on a few of the points that I think make my father special: When my father was a child his family moved west during the depression. He was an avid reader until his stroke left him with a blind spot to the left and made reading impossible, now he listens to books on tape and watches the NASA channel (and wishes dearly that he was young enough to see men go to Mars - or rather to go himself). He served for over 21 years in the U.S. Army. Was in the Second Infantry Division, and served during WWII, the Korean War, and Vietnam. He trained himself to use computers then was highly educated as a computer programmer by the Army. In the mid 1960's he was part of the Signal Corps and recieved an Army Commendation Medal for his "significant contribution" to the Combat Developments Study on the "Application of Automatic Switching Systems, 1965-1970." This is the switching systems development that made the Internet possible. I also know that one of his brothers was at Pearl Harbor and he has grandsons that are currently serving in the U.S. Army.
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Hot Wheels My dad collects Hot Wheels. He has shelves of them lined up in the bedroom and enjoys sitting sorting new cars out for which set they belong in. My mom and I are constantly on the lookout at garage sales and second hand stores for cars that we can buy for him to add to his collection. His favorites are the Cadillacs (because he has always been a Cadillac guy), the old Fords (like Model A's and such) and the Mustangs. I will be putting pictures of some of his cars up here when I can get my camera to work.
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