....His Last Words...Part II

My father finished his life on his terms. He left this life making a choice to leave. The week before he died he told me "I'm ready to go home." And it was on this note that I remember his strength. We didn't neccesarily get along but I never questioned his love. Perhaps the moment I remember most is when my father told me he was ready to go home and I told him how everything I had done in my career was to make him proud...to hear him say "I know...and I guess I wasn't very good at saying anything about it" was enough for me to know...he knew...and he was proud.