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Mile Marker 95...

Posted at 10:04 PM on Wednesday, April 23, 2008

Dad turned 95 yesterday.

Imagine the change he has seen in his lifetime. From the infancy of the automobile and the airplane, to cars and trucks with heated seats and Onstar, and man on the moon.

From draft horses to air conditioned tractors that can downshift, disengage 4WD, and lift an implement at row end by pushing one button.

From hand cranked phones only in town, to high speed internet practically anywhere.

From the early days of radio, to satelite TV.

He was born a year after the sinking of the Titanic. He's lived through Einstein's Theory of Relativity; World War One; Banting and Best's Discovery of Insulin; The Stock Market Crash of 1929; the Great Depression; The Dust Bowl; The Hindenburg Disaster; World War Two; Hiroshima and Nagasaki; the Korean War; The Fabulous Fifties; The Coronation of Queen Elisabeth; Jimmy Dean's death; The Day the Music Died; The Bay of Pigs; JFK's assassination; The Beatles; Vietnam; "One Small Step for man, a Giant Leap for Mankind"; Watergate; The Falklands; "Who Shot JR?"; The Space Shuttle Columbia Disaster; The Fall of The Iron Curtain; Lady Di's Death; The Terror Attacks of Sept 11, 2001...

He saw it all. His life spans the period of the greatest technological advancement of the modern era, and worldwide upheaval on a scale never seen before. You can cross the country now in less time than you could cross the county when he was born. You can send an email instantly to someone on the other side of the planet, when it likely took weeks to get a letter to someone on the other side of the country. A doctor can now look inside your body with X-Rays, ultrasounds, and CAT Scans. Scientists can see outer space and inner space.

None of this changes Dad's quiet wisdom, though. He still knows God is King over all, and everyone and everything is subject to Him, and that's all that really matters.

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