Father�s Day, 2018!

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This photo is a new clipping that came into my life within the last month or so.

My niece Emilee, my brother Mark�s eldest is into genealogy and has found some amazing things online by searching newspaper records, old school year books (found a photo of my mom at 16!) and we have benefited greatly from her searching.

What a gift � these things that were thought lost, or never even knew they existed.

This photo is of my dad�s dad � my Grandpa Wilkinson who passed away when I was two. My brothers never knew him. I remember him faintly.

And here he is as a young man, just having returned from WWII with a bit of his story. I was in tears reading this as I never really �KNEW� this man. He was taken from us far too soon.

My dad is the cutie patootie blond 5 1/2 year old in the front with short shorts - named for his father.

The other crazy family thing is just how much my brother Scott looks like Grandpa. Serious family resemblance. And I love that.
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