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[Hank's Mail]Tears of Fathers

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Dear all,



Good Friday morning!


Last Friday our entire nation was quite wet due to a full day-long rainfall which fell after its long absence. Many people considered the rainfall as God¡¯s condolence to Sgt. Yoon Jang-ho, whose body had just arrived in Seoul after he was killed in a suicide bombing in Afghanistan. It is truly mournful that Sgt. Yoon came back to Korea to complete the mandatory army service after having been schooled in Indiana from junior high to college for over 10 years and had less than two months to go before redeploying to Korea. May Sgt. Yoon rest in peace!


His mother was understandably distraught over the tragedy suddenly inflicted on her and so was his father, although he just stood sobbing instead of wailing. A flood of tears must have formed a river down in his heart.


Also last week, TV news report depicted Toby Dawson, a bronze medalist in the 2006 Winter Olympics, hugging his Korean biological father, Mr. Kim Jae-soo, in Seoul. He was adopted by an American ski instructor in Colorado since he was lost in a local market by his mother in Pusan at the age of three. Upon seeing his father he first asked why Mr. Kim hadn¡¯t tried to locate him further. Mr. Kim, while shedding tears, couldn¡¯t say anything more to him than ¡°I am sorry. I am sorry.¡±



This inquiry reminds me of a scene in the recently-released movie Rocky Balboa, where Rocky said to Robert, his son, who struggles to identify his own self, not as Balboa, Jr., but appears to be a loser in the eyes of movie-viewers, as follows: ¡°I am always gonna love you no matter what. No matter what happens, you¡¯re my son and you¡¯re my blood. You¡¯re the best thing in my life.¡±


¡¦ And, I¡¯d like Toby to read the following story. While mothers cry over a tragedy, fathers just stand with his eyes closed ¡¦ outside¡¦ but weep bitter tears inside.


Have a good weekend!


Hank



[The Father¡¯s Gift]


A young man was getting ready to graduate from college. For many months he had admired a beautiful sports car in a dealer's showroom, and knowing his father could well afford it, he told him that was all he wanted.


As Graduation Day approached, the young man awaited signs that his father had purchased the car. Finally, on the morning of his graduation, his father called him into his private study. His father told him how proud he was to have such a fine son, and told him how much he loved him. He handed his son a beautifully wrapped gift box.


Curious, and somewhat disappointed, the young man opened the box and found a lovely, leather-bound Bible, with the young man¡¯s name embossed in gold. Angry, he rose his voice to his father and said, ¡°with all your money, you give me a Bible?¡±and stormed out of the house.


Many years passed and the young man was very successful in business. He had a beautiful home and wonderful family, but realized his father very old, and thought perhaps he should go to him. He had not seen him since that graduation day.


Before he could make arrangements, he received a telegram telling him his father had passed away, and willed all of his possessions to his son. He needed to come home immediately and take care of things.


When he arrived at his father¡¯s house, sudden sadness and regret filled his heart. He began to search through his father¡¯s important papers and saw the still gift-wrapped Bible, just as he had left it years ago. With tears, he opened the Bible and began to turn the pages. His father had carefully underlined a verse, Matt. 7:11, ¡°And if you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in Heaven give good things to those who ask Him?¡±


As he read those words, a car key dropped from the back of the Bible. It had a tag with the dealer¡¯s name, the same dealer who had the sports car he had desired. On the tag was the date of his graduation, and the words PAID IN FULL.


[JURY EXEMPTION]


Just as she was celebrating her 80th birthday, our friend received a jury-duty notice. She called to remind the people at the clerk's office that she was exempt because of her age.


"You need to come in and fill out the exemption forms," they said.


"I've already done that," she replied. "I did it last year."


"You have to do it every year," she was told.


"Why?" came the response. "Do you think I'm going to get younger?"



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