Thanks for sharing that, Dan.  I agree with David, you're a man easy to respect and admire and you have a lucky kid.  I'll submit my entry, circa 1996.  This was a return to my dad's childhood hometown in northern Minnesota (perched upon the lifeguard chair he occupied as a teen).  He passed away suddenly a year later from a pulmonary embolism. He was a fantastic father and role model.  As for me at the time, I was an emotionally precocious youth but a little sheltered by him from the practical realities of life.  I felt like I grew up more in the year following his death than any other time in my life.  That's me in the middle with a head full of pigment; my brother on the left, aching to get back to his Miami Vice re-run.