I am at post-debate day number three and as remarkable (not in a good sense) as some of the things that happened in the debate were , I am perhaps more shocked by what did not happen and that is that……….
I have always thought the hardest thing a parent would have to go through would be having to bury a child, regardless of the circumstances. Whether it be a life lost to an overseas war, a drug overdose, a cancerous tumor, Covid or in a tragic car wreck where two children, three and four years old are spared but the life of one child, a daughter, is taken along with the mother. Imagine how this would impact you as a person? As a father? How it would shape you? I cannot say myself, but I bet it would make you cling to each and everything about the two that survived. I cannot help but think that it would alter the path of the two surviving children as well.
Let us say tragedy happens again forty-three years later and one of the remaining sons, a father of two, a bronze medal winner for service in Iraq, a holder of a distinguished and accomplished career, is tragically taken by a brain tumor. Imagine how this would impact you as a person? As a father and now, owing to the passing of time, a friend as well. How it would shape you? I cannot say myself, but I bet it would make you cling to each and everything about the one remaining. I know that a brother’s death will alter the path of any surviving siblings. I know this well.
Let us say the last child, and it important to remember at this time that he is the last of four including the mother, does not quite make it at being a poster child for righteousness. Let us go one step further and say that all the worst about him is true yet you remain the father and now, owing to the passing of time, a friend as well. Being a person of faith, would you not look to forgive him and love him despite the disappointments. Would you not support him as best you could except where it conflicts with your own set of values? Would you not continue to be a father and friend? I know I would. I want to believe you would as well.
There is so much going on in our country worth debating but the surviving son, no matter how disappointing, of a once promising family of four, is not one of these things. What say we leave the children out of it? Not doing so does not necessarily reflect on the remaining child and certainly not on the father as much as it does on you.
………Joe Biden did not cross the stage and bitch slap his opponent.
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