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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bing, post: 4582336, member: 44132&quot;]&quot;towhead&quot; is a term I thought only I used any longer [USER=82549]@gsimonel[/USER].</p><p><br /></p><p>My father died nearly 40 years ago.&nbsp; He had a hard life.&nbsp; Born in 1908 to a sharecropper in Tennessee, he had to quit school in the 3rd grade in order to go to work to help feed my grandfather (an alcoholic) and his sister.&nbsp; Worked in the coal mines till there was no work to be had and moved to Detroit in order to work in the auto industry.&nbsp; Enlisted in the army at age 36 during WWII, he was wounded in the leg from shrapnel, but came home whole.&nbsp; He worked at Chrysler making crankshafts at the forge plant till he retired in 1968.&nbsp; He died in 1984.&nbsp; As many have said.&nbsp; I miss him. I wish I could say things to him now that I should have said while he was alive.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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