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Yesterday, meaning Independence Day, the
fourth of July. You know, it

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was a great time, but for
me, my mind goes elsewhere because coming

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up on Sunday, July seventh,
it will be the one year anniversary of

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when I lost my father. That's
probably one of the darkest days in my

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life and it's hard to talk about
still to this day. And I wanted

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to put out something for this edition
of Morning Coffee, something to honor him,

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and I was thinking what could I
do at his funeral. I was

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blessed to be able to give his
eulogy. It was hard. It was

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not something that was easy for me
to do, as you can imagine,

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and my cousin, Christopher Wilkerson,
he videoed the eulogy. I have to

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this day still not gone back and
watched it, but I thought that that

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might be a fitting tribute to share
in honor of my father. So I'm

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going to play that for you.
And I apologize in advance that the audio

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may or may not be the greatest
on this one, but I think you'll

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hear the words. I think it'll
be plenty good enough. And this will

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be the first time I've actually sat
down and listened to it myself since he

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captured it. So I'm going to
play this and share with the world what

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my dad meant to me or obviously
because of back home to loss that you

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lost my dad Jumia day Spiritaecham.
He was at NSNES, my brother,

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Trayon, my sister. Now,
I don't know for me as a child,

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there's a no bigger Hebro team.
You mean your father. I'm sure

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you might love Fat Man and Spider
Man or Superman. The dad a big

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fall. He was stronger than them, ougher than that, simply cause he

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was Dad. At some WoT we
get older, you wanted them as falls

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as much as he your eyes.
That never we also sometimes feel disappointment.

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Couldn't be because he had to work
or provide something else worse. But at

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the time I couldn't see up Lad
missed a big game or something like that.

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But it was always because he was
working. He made sacrifices that we

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didn't see, We couldn't possibly understand
half the time, the sac the superhero

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label starts to famous. You get
older, let her phone. Then when

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you end up at me, now
you've seeing him drop everything to be at

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your side. You see him making
the sacrifices that you didn't notice before,

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sacrifices to his wants and needs,
all because you needed a hebrow of that

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moment. It is in these moments
that you realize that even though he isn't

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superhuman, he is very much stealed
a hero. You are, you your

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protector, one of the only two
people, along with your mother in the

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world, that you know will never
stuff everything to protect you, to be

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there for you, to love you. My dad, Jimmy Davis, as

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his sister is always recalled Young or
JD as many of his friends in this

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room today call him. He was
very much that person, whether it was

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to call me when I was hurt
of'em you don't wanna told him not

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to, just to try to give
you a few words and encourage, or

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like when both my brother and my
sister failed himself and one of life's meeting

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a crossroads, he figured out how
to help them, even if they been

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packing up, moving two states up
them. He loved his grandkids early and

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he always wanted to be there for
them. When my brother got married into

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married he accepted her kids, and
not as that grandkids, but simply as

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a grandchildren. He had others in
this room, and that he considered adopteds

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like Michael Awards, considered you a
son, and there's so many others that

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I may not realize to have,
but considered that. That's who he was.

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That's what a father's love is truly
about. He leaves us with that

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last I've always been when to drop
everything and my friend calls, he says

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he needs help. I got that
for me. My brother and sister they

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got back from me. One of
the things about Jamie Hings is all hard

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m You never met a stranger.
Once he left you, you have a

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friend for life. The last time
I saw that he was on his way

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to Colorado, go off of one
last adventure with his money. He stopped

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in Ellisville, had a bunch of
hoards. Dad wanted to get a room

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here in a frosty row. He
loved the friars, one of his favorite

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things. Whe's there that day worts
machine was not free from the lugs properly,

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but he stilled to join the river. Here became a law apartment,

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and he loved all the sports of
germaphilia that I had had. It's a

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great memory. It was one at
the time that I had no clue that'd

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be the last time I remember saw. But I'm happy for that cause he

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was full of life. He was
so anxited. Uh went off on that

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trip with you maybe so looking forward
to it big an episode. Happy you

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got to go off with you on
that adventure. The fact that he got

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to go on to one last adventure
before he was calling home, it's amazing.

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Gravely you miss repeated before. Thinking
that happen makes me think of a

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d before all that. Jack London, It's the proper function of a man

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is to live, not to exist. I shall not base my dad,

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he's trying to prolong them. I
shall be used my time, Dad,

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you shartainly used your time and we
will see you. Yeah. I know

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when you were a Christian, I
know you were saying and I appreciate it

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or locals either from the story you
shared as well. Know when you grows,

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it's your father's the first touch and
told you it was okay to living

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from then it was Tom. I'm
sure your mom's right by side. He

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leaves behind my mother Jeavy, his
wife for fifty five years, a brother,

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Tray, my sister, Christian,
his three sisters. Very soon Jane

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Peggy, his sister John is a
grandchild, Sarah reback up, Claire Cooler,

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Richard and Jim, and of course
several cousins and all of you in

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this room that he loved her.
As children grow older, they realize their

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dad is super They realize he isn't
perfect they all, but we also realized

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that he didn't need to be to
be more human, cause he's still the

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hero you need. He's the hero
that steps up in your morse. He's

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that he grow because he's Dad.
Yes, we're all. If you're here

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today, it's because he touched your
life in some way, so your heart

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to right their ways. But I
know you see him again. You wo

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is the nialmotion? Tell me is
okay? Believe that that's not there's comfort

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nor Dad. It's good enough Da, till we meet again. It will

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be for everyone. I love you. I'm always miss you. Yeah,

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I had not watched or heard that
sense. And I thank the Lord for

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the strength to get through that one
and this Sunday, one year ago,

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you will have left us, but
you're still here in our heart. Still

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love you, Dad, Still moving
forward like you'd want me to. And

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I know you're watching down and I
thank you for everything. This has been

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morning coffee with the right side.
I'm your host, Jack Fairchilts and Where

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