Vintage Photo

Who's that spiffy guy in the coast guard uniform?

That's my father.

I found the picture while cleaning and scanned it. Lately I've been finding old photos of my family. I have a photo of my dad's parents that I want to scan soon. That was the set of grandparents that I never knew. In fact, the only grandparent that I've known is my mother's mom. All the others were gone on by the time I was born.

This past week has made me think about all these people and how I don't really know the people close to me. I know very little of the life my dad's led, other than what I've seen in the last 33 years, I'm ashamed to say.

I want to change that. I don't want to go through my life and not know the people that I love the most.