Wonderful piece about your dad. For you to still remember his birthday says a lot about your father.
To have passed at the age of 60, when you were only 18 had to be very tough.
If still alive my dad would have turned 102 this past November. There was something about that generation that many seemed to share, they had a hard time relaxing, always on the go.
He lived to the age of 82 and only sat around the last 10 years or so when his knees finally became an issue.