My dad died of alzheimer's ten years ago today. He was a student of history, amongst other things. - Pearl Harbor Day was a historical date that affected his life greatly. He graduated from KSU in 1942 and served in the South Pacific. I will try to post this on the same minute that he died (ten years later).

The "mind" is an interesting organ. It has many "A-bilities" ! That is pronounced "UH"-bilities with the emphasis on the first syllable. I have been pronouncing it that way for a couple of years now. I tell people that my twin sons have the uh'-bility to memorize, retain, and recall hundreds (actually thousands) of facts about all kinds of movies and documentaries. They also just "happened to have" a mental illness.   

My dad had a long and interesting life. He used his mental uh'-bilities well. His friends always said that he had a photographic memory. I am just glad that there is an excellent possibility that his smarts and mental uh'-bilities - (even though probably skipping a generation) - got passed down to all of my children, both of them . . . patrickthecritic (nkm2) - and - seanthewriter . . . ( "seanthewriter" coming soon to a mental health awareness website near you - after he gets out of the state hospital ! ) 

I am sure that a lot of you have heard of cases where people, in the final stages of their lives, try to make it to the next memorable date . . . Even in the final stages of 7 years of alzheimer's - whether coherent or incoherent - consciously or subconsciously - my dad's brain used it's uh'-bility to make it to the middle of Pearl Harbor Day in the year 2000 !  . . .  Almost exactly  -  11:55 A.M.  Central Time  -  9:55 A.M. Eastern Time

Good Job Dad, Papa, Bill, "Wild Bill"  -  We love you !  -  MK

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