From Kevin, the firstborn

Dad,

I love you. 

Thanks for everything.

Thanks for getting up  early to make us all lunches. 

Thanks for making sure we learned how  to swim, how to ski,  how to drive,  and how to speak French.

Thanks  for teaching us honesty and integrity.

Thanks for showing us that if you really care and keep working at it you really can make a huge positive difference to the lives of many people.

Thanks for  teaching us to care about people we don’t even know, and who weren’t born as lucky as us.

Thanks for taking marriage seriously. I feel very privileged. I know that almost this whole list goes to the team. Thanks Mum.

Thanks for sending us to play outside,  sporty nature lover is a great way to go through life.

Thanks for supporting an extended formal education, without pushing a career agenda. It gives me a leg up, even if it’s not obvious to everyone.

Thanks for summers at the cottage, and holidays with family.

Thanks for the “Yes Minister” style stories, it’s great as a kid when your Dad is one of the Good Guys, even better as an adult.

Sorry for no grandkids, but that seemed to me like the biggest thing that I could do to help the whole world.

Thanks for not giving up, and taking all the treatments, it’s been great having you around a little longer.  Long enough for me to get around to say thanks for  everything.

Thanks for trying to teach me not to procrastinate, I’ll get around to that  soon.

I’ll see you at Thanksgiving, but don’t worry, I won’t let the turkeys get me down.

Love

Number One Son