I stand before you today to pay my last respects, and to say my final goodbye, to my dear father. Those of you who knew my father would probably agree that he was not an easy man to live with or love. In particular, he was not what you would call a good husband, for he could only bring my mother a great deal of unhappiness. He was extremely fussy and nothing that I did …showed first 75 words of 398 total…

…showed last 75 words of 398 total…as an example, everyday before dinner commences, he would look about, over each of us, and then unfold a napkin to allow the meal, in the same town where probably all of the men sat to eat of a hot evening without a shirt. Even when he went to RSL alone to get drunk, he had been known to wear a carefully considered tie. My father was an intelligent man; a university man, although ungraduated.