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The Memory is Green A Memoir In Which I Remember Papa By: Barr ie Itk in “And the tear that we shed, though in secret it rol l s , Shal l long keep his memory green in our souls . ” “Go Where Glory Waits Thee. ” Ir i s h Melody Thomas Moore, 1780 – 1852... More

The Memory is Green A Memoir In Which I Remember Papa By: Barr ie Itk in “And the tear that we shed, though in secret it rol l s , Shal l long keep his memory green in our souls . ” “Go Where Glory Waits Thee. ” Ir i s h Melody Thomas Moore, 1780 – 1852 Copyright 1993 FOR MY CHILDREN WITH LOVE AND THEIR MOTHER WITHOUT WHOM THIS WOULDN’T EXSIST EITHER. FORWORD My father was a remarkable man. However, I didn’t real i ze it unti l it was to late to tel l him so. He rarely talked of his early l i f e ; it wasn’t unli t many years after he died, that I learned some of the detai l s of his chi ldhood from his sis te r , my Aunt Lil l i an . Most of the events of his married years with my mother I learned from my oldest sis te r Jenny, with some fragments from my father when he was in a rare contemplat i ve mood. The later years I was a party to but didn’t real i ze the sign i f i c ance of most of the events unti l some years later when I put some of them into their proper context . I Less