European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 16, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 continued from the cover Hen blew i he rest buying wine and women in Woonsocket . 11 is kids who arc doing of love him anyway. Because he s dad one of those Guys celebrated today fathers  a. A its something that goes deeper than you can explain in words a a is the Way staff sgt.-Patricia-. Offer puts it. A people love their parents because of who they Are not what they  a a offer a 30-Ycarmld transportation specialist on 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 father 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  false Seldom praised the children and it was t until she deployed to the persian Gulf in dec Cher that he told her he was proud that she was in the military. Despite the years of Stern in difference he showed to his seven kids �?o1 love 1 him and i always Wilt a a she said. A a he a my  \ and some of the distance Between offer and her dad May be missing when she gets Home to the United slates. 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 she said. Quot it meant a lot to know he feels that Way.�?�. Asked about what ins father meant to him sgt Lee Baker  answer Reghl Awn. A i can to say a lie said unable to find words . Baker assigned to the 615th my co m Furth Cie Many Hasni to seen his father a retired electrician in Llaura n for More than six months and said he misses him terribly a my father is a character he s like a father to1 everybody in our town Quot said Baker the youngest of three sons. A. His dad Harold Baker is 63, but lie still keeps the stockings he used to fill at Christmas for. Baker his two older Brothers and about a dozen other neighbourhood kids. A the s 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 one time he put me in the car it was a thursday evening i remember when i was really Small. A Togo for a ride a he told me. But he took me to. The Bowling Alley instead Quot Baker said. Being invited to spend Bowling night with his lather and his buddies was  the biggest to Niels of his life Baker said. The Only thing that embarrassed Baker about his lather was his openness with strangers. A sometimes people get offended by things like that. It made me nervous. We would go to a res r Taui aut or somewhere. No matter who was there lie would always talk to them. Sometimes it. Would be in the worst part of  today Baker likes to spend a lot of Lime play my Ball with his son Tyler. He does it he said because that show he liked to spend time with his lather. A we must have a dozen balls a every thing from footballs and baseballs to Bowling. . A a a  a pm Dail Baku said finally Able to sum him lip. Quot he  the  a on llio.se-1aie occasions when sgt. Felix Alva. A a is amps. Effi Burthen Lee Baker quenches his son Tyler a thirst for the soda machine by forking Over coins in Firth. Ratios father had time to play with his children a we used to laugh our Little Butts off Quot Alvarado i remembers. 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 haul worker who usually Only came Home to eat a and sleep. A a a 1 a.  Quot my youth. I never experienced a lot of it with him a he said. A a a. A a a. A a a Quot a. By All accounts his father,.david, had a hard life Felix Alvarado s Grandfather was murdered a during cattle wars on the Texas Plains forcing his lather to go to Woik at age 16 to help support the family. -. 1 Quot but he   it a Alvarado  would Only Point out that his family 1 used to own a lot of Texas land a r so it was those Quot title moments that we actually sunday june 16, 1991