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I haven't seen my dad since I was 11 but my Grandfather was like my dad and we lived with him and my grandmother for years. Nearly everything I know I learned from my Grandfather. I think of him every day too and try and do what he would. There is a picture of him above my tv, he is standing with one foot on the step to get into his plane. (Ryan Navion) It makes me smile the nose cone is missing from the propeller and I can still remember him saying "that da mn thing never would stay on."I will miss him every day for the rest of my life as I am sure you will your father. I am now at the point where I don't get sad or upset but smile instead at the great times and memories. I feel pride in all his acomplishments. I still use his tools and have some furniture he made and a gun he made among other things. Cherish the momentos it becomes almost like visiting him and gives me memories of him attached to those objects. I can remember Christmas a child in the chair he made.