Home School Heartbeat Radio Program
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Is your father your hero? If so, why? And, more importantly, if you’re a father, will you be your child’s hero? This week on Home School Heartbeat, five men consider the impact their fathers have had on their lives. Today, HSLDA President Mike Smith describes why his father was his hero. Mike Smith But I’ll tell you, my memories are so close, it’s as if he was living with me. He was my hero because my dad was a military man. He was in the National Guard. He served in World War II, he served in the Korean War. He was a mechanic—he was an outstanding mechanic, he could fix anything. He was a hard worker. He came from a family of 8, and when he was in the 9th grade, he had to quit and start helping his family. He worked hard all of his life, and finally he ended up with an insurance company, owning that along with my mother. But the work ethic that he gave me was he always made me work to earn things around the house. Probably the best advice he ever gave, though, was when I would be afraid to try something. People were asking me to do it, or there was a challenge that I really should be doing and didn’t have the confidence to do it, he would always say to me “Mike, if somebody else has done it, you can do it!’ And, you know, that saying I still use today. I think about it in my own mind. I don’t know why it works, but it has helped me and it’s worked. And, you know, every day, I miss my dad. He truly was my hero.
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