My dads favorite pets were winnie, spunky, princess, mandy, tiger, sanchez, and peanuts and snoopy the bunny rabbits.. he loved animals, birds and fish.. The Michigan Sea Life Aquarium of auburn hills is opening on January 29, 2015. Jerry and Dorothy would have loved visiting the aquarium and the colorful sea life.. We had a pet turtle in the 60's and also had an aquarium full of colorful fish.
Jerry loved birds.. his favorite birds were owls, seagulls, parrots, hummingbirds, chickadees, cardinals, blue jays, red winged blackbirds, chickens, ducks, swans, toucans, blue mccaws, robins, penguins, sparrows, geese,turkeys and eagles.... He had a pet chicken during the Great Depression that would follow him around.. His two favorite bird movies were "Fly Away Home" with Jeff Daniels and " The Birds" by Alfred HItchcock. Dad loved the song "10,000 Miles " by Mary Chapin Carpenter from Fly Away Home.. he said it was a beautiful song.. I cry every time I hear it..
Jerry loved to watch baseball and football.. he loved to watch the world series and the superbowl..
He voluntereed at the VFW POST for many years.. he loved to cook, bartend, and shoot pool and tell his WW11 stories..
Jerry loved to collect coins and stamps..
Mom and Dad wanted to travel to Hawaii, Australia, New Zealand. Austria, Alaska, Switzerland, Germany, France, Spain and Greece but never did because they both got sick.
However they did travel to Tucson, Az in 1976 to see Tom, Jane, Nancy, and Al.. they loved the sunshine, the mountains, the cactus, and they went to visit Kitts Peak.. I'm so glad they went, they had a great time! They wanted to retire in Florida or Arizona and never did..
Jerry admired Walt Disney and thought he was a creative genious.. unfortunately he never got to visit the Disney Parks.. he would have loved Disney World and Epcot Center. September 15,2015 go to pbs.org american experience part one.of Walt Disney explores the complex life and enduring legacy of Walt Disney from his early days creating Mickey Mouse through the triumph of "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" Jerry would have loved this.. it was very interesting..
Dad admired Tom Brokaw, one of NBC's most famous anchorman.. He read Tom's book "The Greatest Generation" about americans born in the 1920's who came of age during the Great Depression, fought in World War ll and went on to build America. He said it was an excellent book.. Jerry didn't know that Tom Brokaw was diagnosed with multipe myeloma, a treatable but incurable blood cancer.. an emotional story about the subject aired on May 7, 2015 on Dateline NBC.. His memoir is being released on May 12, 2015.
Jerry admired Henry Ford and said he loved the Model T.. Go to American Experience/ Henry Ford Chapter One PBS To learn about the farm boy who rose from obscurity to become the most influential American innovator of the 20th century.. This an interesting rags to riches story. Dad said he visited Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village as a kid and never got back there as an adult. He would have loved the miniature train set in the museum and to see the car that President John F. Kennedy rode in. He would have loved the train ride and the giant IMAX theatre. We saw an interesting movie about Jerusalem there recently.. The Ford-Rouge Factory Tour was fun and interesting also..
April 25, 2015 Dad would have been sad to hear about the 7.8 magnitude earthquake that struck Nepal and killed several thousand people including several mountain climbers on Mount Everest.. He read several books including "Into Thin Air" about mountain climbing and thought it would be awesome to climb the world's highest mountain..
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