This is my father, when he was a young Air Force captain, flying cargo planes during the Berlin Airlift.
Munoz was born in Colombia and his father died in an accident when he was young.
Born in 1902 in Hannibal, Missouri, his father left when he was just a young boy.
Barger had a tough childhood in working-class Oakland - his mother abandoned the family when he was very young and his father was a chronic alcoholic who left him in the care of his elder sister Shirley much of the time.
"He dreamt of being a missionary when he was very young, and he realised that dream, " Father Belanger says.
And those boys reminded me of me, who didn't have a father in the house and who had gotten in some trouble when he was young.
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When she was a young woman her father gave her a choice - he could afford a dowry or pay for her degree, but not both.
In the few weeks that I spent with my father as a child -- he came to visit me for about a month when I was young -- one of the things he did was to take me to my first jazz concert, in Honolulu, Hawaii, in 1971, and it was a Dave Brubeck concert. (Laughter and applause.) And I've been a jazz fan ever since.
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The young man who introduced me -- his father had been killed when he was four years old after getting shot 22 times.
"My father, to me, was 10 feet tall, " says Frazier, whose mother died when he was very young.
In 2008, the young husband and father was riding his four-wheeler on his grandfather's farm when he came in contact with a downed power line.
My father was a pump operator at the city water plant, and he was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis when my brother and I were young.
Placido Domingo, the 72-year-old tenor taking on yet another baritone role, was warmly applauded when he walked onstage Thursday night in his first appearance as Giorgio Germont, father of the young hero, Alfredo.
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