My parents are long deceased but I don't recall being hugged by either of them.

Perhaps that was his aim 500N, he knew you would rise to the challenge and succeed. Parents can be canny buggers.

Brian

I have often wondered but have never asked. Maybe I should.

Based on my track record - left a good public school in the UK with nothing
- worked 11 months in a job then said I was quitting to go to College / Uni and join the mil, his assessment was right. Anyway, got the degree and ended up with a Commission which was a bit of a bonus.

Canny.....maybe, but they do get smarter the older the kids get.

"Buzz" Aldrin wrote in his autobiography that his father chided him for only being the " second" man on the moon.

Yes, I read that.

I met him once at a talk he gave, top bloke, really interesting.

500N - sounds like my Grammar School headmaster. But took great delight in returning in uniform after graduation from the Towers with wings and oh so minute PO braid. Job done.

Wander

Good to hear :ok:

I think (from what was said) that I raised a few eyebrows in the UK - family and old school - when it was published in the Old Oundelians magazine re my commission and degree.

I know that year my parents sent around a photo of me in my dress blues in one Xmas card list :rolleyes:

And you did everything you could to prove him wrong...................which was his plan in the first place :)

Kids are gullible.

So it was one of those that they tell you that you have just done about ok, where as they tell everybody else what a genius you are.