I watched MSNBC all afternoon and evening on June 13, and literally felt as though I were mourning a relative. Tim Russert was such a huge person in America. His family's grief is only added to by the grieving media and all of us watchers. He will be so missed.
Tomorrow will be hard for me too. My Dad died last year at 92. He was also a larger than life person, but he had a smaller audience than Tim Russert. He worked his way through dental school by working nights at the post office. How he did that I'll never know. He fought in WWII, and his unit helped liberate Buchenwald Concentration Camp. I don't think he ever got over that, but we didn't realize it until we were older. War is a tragedy.
The single most important thing I learned from my Dad, and my Mom too but she died 33 years ago, was love. There has never been a day in my life that I haven't felt loved. Now that he's gone, I feel his love so strongly inside me that is feels as if he is here even though he isn't physically present.
He would have loved Barack Obama. His youth and energy and dignity would have excited my Dad.
So happy Father's Day to all the fathers who are here and to the families of all the fathers who are not. And to you too, Senator Obama...your girls are so lucky and so are we.
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