JOE

The first time I met him was at Etowah Park. He was playing baseball with his son and I was finishing one of the endless rounds of batting practice that Rick , Mike , and I had taken the last ten years. We had started at  the park when it was an endless field of dirt and the balls were taped since niehter of u s could afford new ones. I gave the man and his son some balls since they only had one . I was taken by how nice he was .Little did I know that one day he would become my Father-n-law. In all the years I have known him I have never seen him mad or utter a curse word. We look for examples for ourselves but particularly for our children.Hard worker ,easy to please, even keel, consistancy over time, same job for over 40 years, lose your leg at work one night and never utter a why me .That is the stuff of heroes. The likes of which we will most likely  never see again.