Things I learned from my Father

• Honor your parents
  
• Take care of your family ('family' in this case is not just limited to blood relatives. If I had nickel for every 'uncle' and 'cousin' I have back home, I'd have a lot of nickels)
• It's really cool being called 'Papa' when all the other kids call theirs 'Daddy'
• Kentucky Fried Chicken is great, but Red Barn Pappy Parker's Fried Chicken was better
• Don't wait around for things to be handed to you
• When grown-ups come to the house, you come over, say hello and shake hands
• Gabardine suits will be coming back - in a big way (if they do, he's set)
• Always let your guests have more
• Don't stand on the bathroom sink trying to kill a fly, because if you do you might get hurt. And if you don't get hurt, you might get spanked.
• Always make peace after an argument - we did it by pressing thumbs together
• When you join the Roy Rogers Buckaroo Club (pictured above), you get a free single patty hamburger on your birthday
• I think he taught me a couple of Chinese phrases. But I'm not sure it was Chinese
• You can never get tired of corned beef and scrambled eggs, or Cocoa Puffs, or Sara Lee Apple Pie, for that matter
• and most important, you can always come back home again

Thanks, Dad. 

Happy Father's Day to you, and my older brother Patrick (he's the less handsome one on the left in the more recent picture).