"All I knew was that my dad said his uncle was murdered when he was a policeman, but we didn't know any of the details, " Mrs Hancox, from Quinton, said.
On this particular day, the singer was Dinah, and Dinah Washington was one of the people that my dad had worked with when he was a jazz musician.
In about an hour my mum called me and said that my dad was fine.
I've said in this campaign many more times than I know the media, who has followed it, wanted me to say it, that my dad was a milk truck driver and my mom was a secretary.
And let me tell you, every semester he was determined to pay his little share, and to pay that right on time, because my dad was proud to be able to send his kids to college, and he made sure that we never missed a registration deadline because his check was late.
But instead of pointing fingers, instead of placing blame, Barack Obama got to work. (Applause.) You see, you had a President that was thinking about folks like my dad, folks like his grandmother.
As I began researching programs in Italy, I realized that having my dad's support was fundamentally important to me.
It was always clear to me that my mom and dad were always in my corner.
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My plan was to buy a one-bedroom condo, but my dad convinced me that I should at least have a yard and a garage.
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My dad made that walk when I was a kid in our home in Scranton, Pennsylvania.
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After losing his entire family as teen during the Holocaust, my dad hid in a barn that was being searched by soldiers.
Shortly thereafter, I repeated that advice to my shrink and wondered aloud whether my dad was being overly dramatic about the situation.
As director of software, my dad was the first person hired at Apple that officially reported to Steve Jobs.
They both patted me on the top of my head and told my father that he was right, that he was a good dad with a good son, and that the city of Beijing needed more citizens like us.
After I qualified for the high school Jeopardy try-outs, it was my dad who drove me down to Birmingham, Alabama so that I could give it a whirl.
My dad was (and is) fiercely proud of the land that he owned.
It was the only instrument and the only poetry that described the way I felt when I was five and when I was six and when my Dad told me about growing up in New Jersey and what it was like to see Bruce on the boardwalk and make out with girls on the beach.
She would call my dad daily to find out what new stories I was working on so that she could tell her Whistlestop driver, the store clerk and even her physician, to watch.
England said in the jailhouse interview that he used those words "just to express how I was upset at the guy who shot my Dad" and they do not mean he was a racist.
Perhaps it was my mom's retort to my dad's obsession with playing the numbers that helped me understand the power of numbers.
It was my dad who drove me to Duke University when I was in junior high so that I could take the SATs and participate in one of their fancy programs.
"I was lucky enough that I could go back to my family, so I just stayed at my mum and dad's for the weekend, " he says.
Nothing was said, and it was 10 more years until my Dad came out to me deliberately, but I knew it in that look.
And my dad was so proud to be sending his kids to college, and he made sure that we never missed a registration deadline because his check was late.
Can anybody relate to that? (Applause.) But my Dad still had to pay a small portion of that tuition himself, and every semester he was determined to pay that bill right on time.
"I knew that if my dad could be in my shoes for one day if all he had to do was struggle on a bike for six hours, but be healthy and fully functional he would be me on that day in a heartbeat, " Taylor Phinney said.
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While many of the events of that day have been mercifully blocked from my memory, one thing I remember quite vividly was a conversation I had with my dad.
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