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Title: The Triumph of Persistence, Determination and Preparation
Author : ORMAN GRANGER
Release Date : January 12, 2011
Genre: Biographies & Memoirs,Books,
Pages : * pages
Size : 938 KB

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Today is Fathers Day and our children are planning a get together at

their house. As is usual for this time of day, there was the morning fog

replaced later by a clear sky, bright sunshine and warmth. The expected

high temperature today is 71 degrees Fahrenheit up from this mornings

65 but nowhere near the 91 degrees that thermometers would normally

register on Fathers day when I was a kid. Our children have invited us over

to celebrate, since our oldest son is now a father himself, and as my wife

and I drove over to their duplex, I realized that three generations of my

family will be there and it became clear to me that the time had come for

me to provide them with a biographical accounting that will fill in some

blanks about their paternal roots and give them a clearer understanding

of one half of their cultural heritage. It may have appeared to our children

during their short childhood visits to the ancestral homeland of their

father, that their aunts, uncles and cousins lived differently, and were

apparently not as sophisticated as the people with whom they interacted

in Berkeley. They were too young to appreciate the fact that their aunts

and uncles had successful careers as teachers, master welders, policemen,

grocery chain manager, and personal assistant to the President of their

countrys Senate. They probably judged that their cousins toys were

comparatively primitive viewed against the electronic marvels that they

were accustomed to, nor were they as numerous. Television reception

there was deplorable compared to what they were used to at home, and

the duration of programming was limited, but academically, their young

relatives skills were comparable to their own. On one occasion they

were awed by the ability of a few of their cousins to build a functional

lean-to that fitted into the games they were