"Bader Field" The larger vision

My story pays homage to a great man, my father, whose extraordinary qualities made him anything but ordinary. It took more than twenty years of attempts for me to wade through the love and pain of those days long gone, digging into the recesses of the past, to paint his portrait with the everlasting impressions so emblazoned in my being. He gave me so many gifts of life, I cannot even count. Those who knew him were blessed with the love, embracing kindness and innate wisdom he so freely imparted. He was a passionate art dealer, a seasoned pilot, a treasured friend, but most of all a father by which to measure all others. Family always came first.

It is for our two sons that I have taken this emotional voyage backward reaching so deeply to bring forth for them the illuminating memories of this legendary man. They have suffered the greatest loss in never having known him. It is my mission to share him with them and keep the flame of his soul alive within them.
As well, for those who have not had fathers in their lives, or have had less than a perfect childhood, or worse, an abusive experience, perhaps they will see that there is better, and then they will do better when the roles have reversed and they are able to break the chains of history which can be so invisibly binding until brought to light and disavowed.