Word: dad
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...David Nelson, a pudgy, serious, persistent boy, there was never any question that he would be a coal miner like his dad, who came back from Viet Nam in 1971 and followed his father and grandfather into the coal mines. When David was younger, Larry took him for his first look at the mines. "He was ridin' me around," David recalls, "and I looked up and there was this big ! mountain covered with coal. I thought about working there someday...
David recalls what happened next: "Then this big buck come up there, and Dad goes, 'David, there's a buck!' And he just threw his gun up there and he went ka-pow! He got him. He's layin' there kickin', and Dad goes, 'Shoot there!' And I put a bullet in the gun and I go boom! And the bullet hits the dirt. I go, 'I think I missed it.' I put another one in there and I aim again. Ka-pow! I say, 'Dad, I think I missed again.' We went down there, and it stopped kickin...
...that happy though ever distant day when David moves into his new house, one item will surely go with him. It is the mounted head of the nine-point buck he and his father shot last fall. David remembers: "We came to skin the deer, and Dad looks at it and says, 'I'm going to have that mounted.' Then he was tearin' the skin off, and we found where I had shot it real close to the tail where it went through the backbone and came out the other side. And Dad says, 'If you goin' to shoot...
Toward the end of the day, the slightest twist on the doorknob is enough to get a sea of tired eyes to look up. As parents arrive to pick up their kids, Katie quickly looks up to see if it is her mom or dad. Most kids have a pretty good feeling for what time their parents normally appear, so when a parent is late, a child becomes anxious...
Thirty years ago, in the era of Ozzie and Harriet, two out of three American families consisted of a breadwinner, known as Dad, and a mother, known as Mom, and the children they both were raising. Today fewer than one in five families fits that description...