Tuesday, April 23, 2019
My father was on a destroyer during the Korean War. He was not in the Vietnam War. As his daughter and first born there were many years we were close. I miss those years terribly. My father was grandfather to twin boys and a little girl. (A step grandfather to Christines grandchildren) He chose to walk away when they were toddlers after meeting them only twice. For years I begged my dad to let me be in his life. He always refused. It broke my heart. As my brother wrote it was because he didn’t praise him. That’s the gods honest truth. I MISS MY DAD TREMENDOUSLY....The man he used to be. Christine did you have to really send those incredibly cruel letters to my brother and I. Really!! How painful to do that to us. Why couldn’t you have let us know Dad was in hospice? Why wait until he was gone? Why ? We couldn’t even say goodbye.? Daddy I WILL ALWAYS LOVE YOU!!!! I’m sorry for whatever happened to your heart. I was proud of your art and your jokes and career in the fire department and the years in the Navy and all the good times years ago. Jon and I will never really understand what actually happened to you. I truly hope you are in peace now. I know you will NOT be watching over Jon or I or your grandsons Mitchel and Gavin - the very last Cepale’s to carry your name.... or your beautiful granddaughter Juliette. You chose not to know them. It’s so sad. Heart breaking.
