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Happy Father's Day!
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 Your choice of brand. Between now and the end of this month you can be one of three winners in our 100 Gallon Gas Give-away! Obtaining tickets is easy and the odds of winning are fantastic. Click here for details. Her Dad is in Prison This Father's Day
 The significance of us dads, regardless of our actions, is immeasurable. How's your relationship with your father? I'm confident it can increase with gratitude after you hear this past Thursday's radio broadcast. I interviewed the lady in the photo to the right (Bonnie with her dad). Her father is in prison today. Her interview is a mixture of love, fear, forgiveness, anger, determination, and hope. It will tug at your heart strings. We also had call-ins with tributes to dads (all of which received tickets for the gas give-away!).
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Strongest Dad in the World  The following story was written by Rick Reilly in Sports Illustrated.
This love story began in Winchester,
When Rick was 11 they took him to the engineering department at
Rigged up with a computer that allowed him to control the cursor by touching a switch with the side of his head, Rick was finally able to communicate. First words? “Go Bruins!” After a high school classmate was paralyzed in an accident and the school organized a charity run for him, Rick pecked out, “Dad, I want to do that.” Yeah, right. How was Dick, a self-described “porker” who never ran more than a mile at a time, going to push his son five miles? Still, he tried. “Then it was me who was handicapped,” Dick says. “I was sore for two weeks.” That day changed Rick’s life. “Dad,” he typed, “when we were running, it felt like I wasn’t disabled anymore!” And that sentence changed Dick’s life.
He became obsessed with giving Rick that feeling as often as he could. He got into such hard-belly shape that he and Rick were ready to try the 1979
In 1983 they ran another marathon so fast they made the qualifying time for
It must be a buzz-kill to be a 25-year-old stud getting passed by an old guy towing a grown man in a dinghy, don’t you think? Hey, Dick, why not see how you’d do on your own? “No way,” he says. Dick does it purely for “the awesome feeling” he gets from seeing Rick with a cantaloupe smile as they run, swim and ride together. This year, at ages 65 and 43, Dick and Rick finished their 24th
“No question about it,” Rick types. “My dad is the Father of the Century.” And Dick got something else out of all this too. Two years ago he had a mild heart attack during a race. Doctors found that one of his arteries was 95% clogged. “If you hadn’t been in such great shape,” one doctor told him, “you probably would’ve died 15 years ago.” So, in a way, Dick and Rick saved each other’s life.
Rick, who has his own apartment (he gets home care) and works in
I have worn out a box of tissues learning about these two amazing men. I encourage you to view their inspiring video here. www.iwasborntowin.com/videos/hoyt You will see a perfect example of purpose that came from tremendous pain.The above is an excerpt from James' new book I Was Born to Win.
Dad Will Never Say
 Top Ten Things You'll Never Hear a Dad Say 10. Well, how 'bout that?... I'm lost! Looks like we'll have to stop and ask for directions. 9. You know Pumpkin, now that you're thirteen, you'll be ready for unchaperoned car dates. Won't that be fun? 8. I noticed that all your friends have a certain "up yours" attitude ... I like that. 7. Here's a credit card and the keys to my new car -- GO CRAZY. 6. What do you mean you wanna play football? Figure skating not good enough for you, son? 5. Your Mother and I are going away for the weekend ... you might want to consider throwing a party. 4. Well, I don't know what's wrong with your car. Probably one of those doo-hickey thingies -- you know -- that makes it run or something. Just have it towed to a mechanic and pay whatever he asks. 3. No son of mine is going to live under this roof without an earring -- now quit your belly-aching, and let's go to the mall. 2. Whaddya wanna go and get a job for? I make plenty of money for you to spend. 1. Father's Day? aahh -- don't worry about that -- it's no big deal. Dad's Funniest Moments
 It has now been 14 years since my Dad died. I was 26 years old at the time. For as long as I can remember He was disabled from Emphysema. The doctors sent him home to die many times in the previous five years leading up to his actual death. I am amazed at how long he hung on. I saw my father suffer a lot toward the end. He couldn't even walk to the mailbox without giving out of breathe. When he died it was a bitter/sweet moment. He is so much happier today and I look forward to seeing him again.
For the most part, when I have memories of my Dad it's because of some "down home" slang saying or one-liner I hear that makes me laugh. He wasn't necessarily full of them but he was so funny because he would simply speak from his heart. Things that weren't even meant to be funny. You know what I mean, those nuggets in history we hear that crack us up when the intention is not humor driven.
Elvis died when I was eight or nine years old. One time I asked Daddy if he ever liked Elvis Presley. He simply pointed outside our living room window to the one Oak tree in the front yard and replied "I wouldn't walk out to that tree to see him twice." I figured that meant "no". Twice? I laughed so hard. The statement would have been powerful without the "twice" but he inserted it and never cracked a smile. He was serious and certainly wasn't a man with grammatical excellence or "punch line" timing skills. Just a simple comment from his heart. ....read more.
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