My Dad Laird David Milligan

D.A.D. ID:Laird David Milligan Document no: 958-042-42

The International D.A.D. Foundation is a nonprofit organization which publicly recognizes exceptional fathers around the world. The Foundation evaluates approximately 70,000 nominees annually and selects 10 award winners per year.

Dads of Awesome Distinction Award

Name of Award Winner: Laird David Milligan
2/26/1957 - 2/05/2002
Home city and state: Sarasota, Florida

It is with great pride that the International D.A.D. Foundation proclaims Laird Milligan�as a Dad of Awesome Distinction.

Laird�Milligan embodied the highest principles of Fatherhood -- kindness, compassion, guidance, understanding, humor and unconditional love.

Laird is further declared an official D.A.D. Role Model for all current and future parents in Florida�and throughout the world.

The Foundation is unanimous in praising the extraordinary strength and patience demonstrated by Laird in rearing Erin, Ashley and Heather, while at the same time, achieving noteworthy success in his role as Tire Sales and Service Technician @ Dick Chandlers Tire & Auto.

The Foundation believes that Laird Milligan is deserving of public acclaim locally as well as internationally. Therefore, interested parties are encouraged to write letters of tribute to editors of newspapers, community newsletters and church bulletins in the city of Sarasota.

Laird, Ashley, Joni, Rex

Laird & Rex

Heather & Laird

"I Am"
I am the same person I was before.
I wonder where heaven is.
I see my Dad at his mulch pile.
I hear nothing bad.
I want my Dad back.
I'm my own person.
I pretend he is still here.
I believe I'll be with him eventually.
I touch his picture when I miss him.
I feel no harsh feelings.
I am not invincible.
I understand nothing above my level.
I cry when it is appropriate.
by Heather

"Hears Heather"
Heather
Passionate, caring, independent, majestic.
Attached to my parents.
I adore my Dad, and Mom, I love my dog.
I fear nothing, crashing, failing.
I want to see my Dad, Australia,
myself in someone else's view of me.
Living in a world were there's fear yet hope.
By Heather

"LAIRD"
You & I took a special chance
the first time we met...
we both knew enough of love,
and life, to understand that
two people don't fall in love,
they grow into it slowly_
and we'd both been hurt before
by feelings that seemed too easily lost...
but there was something between us
from the beginning, a unique harmony
that made us take that special chance...

You & I took a special chance
the first time we argued...
after feeling hurt & sad,
and both of us trying to apologize
at the same time for disagreeing
over such a small matter, we knew
that our relationship was worth more...
than anything that might come between us,
And we knew that after the first time
that what we had together
would see us through the hard times
and make us better appreciate the good,
because we took that special chance...

You & I took that special chance
the first time we said, "I love you"...
for we knew that we would share
stormy as well as sunny times,
laughter & tears, some dreams that
would come beautifully true, and others
that would fade in our memories-
and we knew in our hearts
that our love deserved all the effort
we could make to fulfill our life together...
for we took that special chance ...
and found a very special love.
Love Ya Altime,
Joni
written by Edmund O'Neill from "No Matter What , My Love Is Yours"(a collection of poems)

LAIRD
I think our love was meant to be...
The special sharing we knew
couldn't be as it was
if we had not met exactly when we did.
If our lives hadn't touched
when they did,
I might have lived today
loving one less preson.
But not just any person...
a very beautiful one...
Thank you for being you,
and for helping me
to understand
some of the joys to be found in life.
Love Ya Altime,
Joni
written by Janice Lamb from "No Matter What , My Love Is Yours"(a collection of poems)

As Long As

As long as the sun put out its rays

with you I wanted to spend my days.

As long as the moon gave off its light

with you I wanted to spend my nights.

As long as there were fish in the sea

I wanted you to be right next to me.

As long as birds flew in the sky

I never wanted to say good-bye.

Because I loved you, that is why.

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Tho I have to leave you,
Whom I love,
To go along the silent way,
Grieve not, nor speak of me with tears,
But laugh and talk of me,
as if I were beside you.
For who knows but I shall be, oft times!
I'd come, I'd come could I
but find the way.
And would not tears and griefs be barriers?
So, when you hear a word I used to say,
or, touch a thing I loved,
let not your thoughts of me be sad,
for I am loving you just as
I Always have.

LAIRD
I ask myself why I had been blessed with someone
so understanding and so caring.
Perhaps it was because I could truly appreciate you
or maybe it was because God knew I needed you so much.
Love Ya, JONI

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