European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 16, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 $ctmwi6ii?wt��iiwrienmsromw9� continued from the cover then blew the rest buying wine and women in Woonsocket . 11 is kids who Are doing of love him anyway. Because he s dad one of those Guys celebrated today father s Day. A a it a something that goes deeper than you can explain in words a is the Way staff sgt. Patricia. Offer puts it. A people love their parents because of who they Are not what they  offer a 30-year-old transportation specialist tin duty in Dhahran saudi Arabia should know. She said she can to remember a time when her relationship with her father Wasny to strained in some Way. Her lather an airborne command sergeant major who retired a where else a near fort Bragg n.c., treated his family As if they were soldiers under his command offer said. A love was not something we talked about much a she said her father Seldom praised the children and it Wasny to until she deployed to the persian Gulf in december that he told her he was proud that she was in the military. Despite the years of Stern indifference he showed to his seven kids a i love 1 him and i always will a she said. A a he a my father.�?�. And some of the distance Between offer and her dad May be missing when she gets Home to the United states. Offer said she was surprised by the concern her father showed when she called to say she was going to saudi Arabia. A the told me to not get killed because he did no to want to lose me a she said. A it meant a lot to know he feels that Way.�?�. Asked about what his father meant to him sgt. Lee Baker  answer right away. A i can to  he said unable to find words to lit. Baker assigned to the f�151h my co in Furth Germany Hasni to seen his father a retired electrician in Almira n.y.,.for More than six months and said he misses him terribly. I a a a my father is a character. I less like a father to1 everybody in our town a said Baker the youngest of three sons. His dad Harold Baker is 63, but he still keeps the stockings he used to fill at Christmas for Baker his two older Brothers and about a dozen other neighbourhood kids. Quot lies a like a treasure Chest. Just to talk to him is like throwing open a treasure Chest and finding something different each time a Baker said. Quot Cne time he put me in the car it was a thursday evening i remember when i was really Small. A to go for a ride a he told me. But he took me to the Bowling Alley instead a Baker said. Being invited to spend Bowling night with his father and his buddies was  the biggest moments of his life. Baker said. The Only thing that embarrassed Baker about his father was his openness with strangers. Quot sometimes people get offended by things like that. It made me nervous. We would go to a res Laura ii or somewhere. No matter who was there he would always talk to them. Sometimes it would be in the worst part of  today Baker likes to spend a lot of time playing Ball with his son Tyler lie does it he said because that show he liked to spend time with his lather. Quot we must have a dozen balls a everything irom loot Halls and baseballs to Bow Ling . A a a Quot my dad Quot Baker said finally Able to sum him up. Quot he just Means the  a on those  of pensions w Hen sgt. Felix Alvah a ,. _ is amps Effia Burthen Lee Baker quenches his son Tyler a thirst for the soda machine by forking Over coins in Furth. Radon a father had time to play w Ith his children Quot we used to laugh our Little Butts off a Alvarado remembers. A. A a. A Quot a a Alvarado assigned to the 66th military intelligence brigade in Munich. Germany described those times As Quot the Best feeling in be Ever  but Alvarado mostly remembers his father As a hard worker who usually Only came Home to Gat and sleep. Quot my youth. I never experienced a lot of it with him Quot he said. By All accounts his father David had a hard life Felix Alvarado s Grandfather w As murdered during cattle wars on the Texas Plains forcing his lather to go to work at age 16 to help support the family. A but he never really talked about it a Alvarado said. A the would Only Point out that his family 1 used to of n a lot of Texas land.�?�. A so it was those Quot Little moments that we actually sunday june 16. 1991