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John Byrne
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| Posted: 14 July 2025 at 7:51pm | IP Logged | 1
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Today would be my father’s 105 birthday—if he hadn’t gone and died in 2011!As I say every year, I simply cannot accept 1920 being more than 100 years ago!
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Matt Hawes
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| Posted: 14 July 2025 at 8:07pm | IP Logged | 2
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Happy "Heavenly" birthday to your father.
I also have trouble accepting that 1920 is more than a century ago. Though way before my time, being a silent comedy fan and such makes the period seems closer to me.
While in my teens, a century meant before cars, telephones, movies, etc. It meant cowboys and such. The 1920s doesn't have that "ancient history" feel to me.
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John Byrne
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| Posted: 14 July 2025 at 8:54pm | IP Logged | 3
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One of my younger gal pals was born in 1988. Think of everything that had already happened by then, just in the 20th Century. Two world wars. Korea. Vietnam. The moon landing. Color TV. Cellphones. Jet aircraft. STAR TREK and STAR WARS. She has no problem with 1920 being 105 years ago.
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John Byrne
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| Posted: 14 July 2025 at 8:58pm | IP Logged | 4
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Just looked it up, and the first commercial airline started in 1914. When Dad was born people (who were just PASSENGERS) had been flying for six years!
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James Johnson
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| Posted: 14 July 2025 at 10:27pm | IP Logged | 5
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JB,
I kinda understand what you are going through.
Were he alive today, my dad would be 100 years old on this coming Thursday, July 16th.
Sad thing is that I only had 16 years with him. My dad passed away at the relatively young age of 56.
Side Note - My oldest child (daughter) was born in 1988.
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My old man died six weeks before his 90th birthday. Had he lived, he'd be turning 100 years old this year.We were watching Deadwood one day when I commented to him that *his* father was a contemporary of the children on that show.
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John Byrne
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A D'OH! moment! Started this thread yesterday, but Pater's birthday is actually the 15th.
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Mitch Denoyer
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Deforest Kelley and Jimmy Doohan would also have been105 this year. That’s even harder to accept since they are forever in their 40s on my hi-def Original Series blu-rays!
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John Byrne
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One of the smaller shocks of my late teens: learning Bones and Scotty were the same age as my Dad!
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Michael Penn
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| Posted: 15 July 2025 at 6:13pm | IP Logged | 10
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My father's in his 90s and it's a tough time -- inter alia, of course -- but not necessarily least because he's outlived everybody he knows, almost.
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John Byrne
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My father maintained a very active social and intellectual life, tho he still nodded off a lot, and was physically frail.
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Evan S. Kurtz
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My dad developed Parkinson's late in life and lost the ability to live on his own right as the pandemic went into full effect. He narrowly survived a bout with pneumonia in August of 2020, then caught COVID from one of the attendants in the assisted living facility my sister had placed him within. He passed in November of 2020. I was able to drive into the States to see him, then had to enter into quarantine back in Toronto for two weeks on the same day he died. Not my happiest memory of the pandemic.
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