Kindred Footprints: Happy Birthday Dad

Happy Birthday Dad

John Edward Manley (Jan 9, 1929 - Mar 10, 1988)

Happy Birthday Dad
~ What the heart has once known, it shall never forget ~

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HerstoryanJanuary 11, 2010 at 11:04 AM
I love the quote you posted...so true...

Thinking of you as you think of your father...
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Dear Ancestor

Your tombstone stands among the rest;
Neglected and alone.
The name and date are chiseled out
On polished, marble stone.
It reaches out to all who care
It is too late to mourn.
You did not know that I exist
You died and I was born.
Yet each of us are cells of you
In flesh, in blood, in bone.
Our blood contracts and beats a pulse
Entirely not our own.
Dear Ancestor, the place you filled
One hundred years ago
Spreads out among the ones you left
Who would have loved you so.
I wonder how you lived and loved,
I wonder if you knew
That someday I would find this spot,
And come to visit you.
~ Author Unknown ~

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