A Teen from our school Wrote an essay about her Father and entered it as a nomination in the "Notheast Arkansas
Father's Hall of Fame" The essay came in 1st out of roughly 1000 entries. Her father was selected to be one of 10 Fathers
inducted in the Fathers Hall of Fame.
My father/father figure deserves to be in the Father’s Hall of Fame because…
Even when he worked 100
hour weeks he always made time to spend with my brother and I no matter how tired he was. He sat down and built things with
Lego blocks. He rode bikes and four wheelers with us. We rode on tractors, cotton pickers, and helped work module builders.
He taught my brother and I to help around the house and yard.
Even though he is now disabled, he has found other ways to spend time with us. He helps us with our homework more,
He is even going to go to church camp with me this year, watches TV and movies with us and just sits down and talks to us.
We can always talk to him about anything. If I have done anything wrong, I know no matter what it is I can tell him and he
will help me through it. He always has a joke to tell to make us feel better.. He, like most dads, disciplines me. But he tells me what I have done wrong and helps
me figure a way to avoid it next time. When my mother was in the hospital having surgery he was still having to use a cane
but he still took care of us at home and was at the hospital everyday with mom. When she came home he took care of all of
us and never complained.
The reason he is disabled
is that we had a wreck about 6 years ago. He broke almost every bone on his left side.
Before he broke down with his own pain, he had to know where we were and know if we were ok. When he knew that he let
go. He was sent to the MED in Memphis and was put in trauma ICU. He had a respirator and a chest tube. After he was better
he told my mom that the only thing that kept him going was that he had a wife and two babies to take care of and raise that
need their dad, and he made it through keeping that in his mind. Another way that proves he is a strong dad is that on the
day of our wreck, we were coming home from my grandpa’s (my dad’s father's) funeral.
He is not just a dad to
my brother and I, he also helps take care of my Great Great Grandmother that is 92 years old. He takes time to help my other
Grandpa when he is down or in the hospital. My friends just love him and wish that he was their dad. After everything he has
been through he has never once forgotten to let us know that he cares. He has always been the “GO TO” guy.__
Whenever anybody
needs anything they know that they can count on him to be there. That’s my dad!! Any man can be a father but it takes
something special to be a DAD!! That is why I think my father deserves to be in the father’s hall of fame.
