Teenager: A Salute To My Buddy
People that share today as a birthday are Martin Luther (1483), King George II (1683), Roy Scheider (1932) - I always rooted for the shark, by the way, Sinbad (1956), Warren G (1970) and my son, Little Harry Potter (1993). Yes it is true, I am now the proud Papa of a teenaged boy!
Let’s travel back through the circuits of time and find out great things that happened on the big man's special day. This day in history saw the U.S. Continental Congress, in 1775, pass a resolution creating what would become known as the U.S. Marine Corp. Construction began on the White House when the cornerstone was placed in 1792. In 1938, Kate Smith sings Irving Berlin’s God Bless America for the very first time. The Public Television program Sesame Street, made its debut this day in 1969 as well.
Today is the day the Catholic Church honors Pope Leo the Great and is the Argentine holiday of Tradition Day.
These are all great things but I do not celebrate them. Today I celebrate my boy, my namesake, for only the 13th time. Today is the day that our family dreams of all of the great things this child will accomplish. These great things do not include the conning of classmates out of their lunch money or hacking into his school’s computer systems. Yes, these are things that the boy has accomplished but we will not mention them here…oops, too late! Here’s to the kid who enjoys reading (just like his dad), watching cartoons (just like his dad), and keeping track of all sports (again, just like his old man). Hopefully he can do much better than I did but I’m pretty sure he will. Hopefully he will give better advice to his son than, “Wherever you go…there you are!”
Happy Birthday buddy, Dad loves ya!
Let’s travel back through the circuits of time and find out great things that happened on the big man's special day. This day in history saw the U.S. Continental Congress, in 1775, pass a resolution creating what would become known as the U.S. Marine Corp. Construction began on the White House when the cornerstone was placed in 1792. In 1938, Kate Smith sings Irving Berlin’s God Bless America for the very first time. The Public Television program Sesame Street, made its debut this day in 1969 as well.
Today is the day the Catholic Church honors Pope Leo the Great and is the Argentine holiday of Tradition Day.
These are all great things but I do not celebrate them. Today I celebrate my boy, my namesake, for only the 13th time. Today is the day that our family dreams of all of the great things this child will accomplish. These great things do not include the conning of classmates out of their lunch money or hacking into his school’s computer systems. Yes, these are things that the boy has accomplished but we will not mention them here…oops, too late! Here’s to the kid who enjoys reading (just like his dad), watching cartoons (just like his dad), and keeping track of all sports (again, just like his old man). Hopefully he can do much better than I did but I’m pretty sure he will. Hopefully he will give better advice to his son than, “Wherever you go…there you are!”
Happy Birthday buddy, Dad loves ya!
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