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The most dedicated service in all human experience is that which a father renders to his child.
The best thing we do is the love and respect we give in return.
There are exceptions of course but few fathers ever give up on ungrateful or unworthy children.
There was a poignant case in Los Angeles the other day when a distraught father turned to the law and the courts for help in salvaging the wasted life of his wayward daughter, a narcotics addict.
The father said he was through worrying, and now he was going to get something done about it, not to punish but to save the girl.
Their love does not have to be earned, or even deserved.
Their sacrifices cannot be bought. They find self-fulfillment in the pleasures they give the ones who owe them and most and from whom they expect the least.
Fatherhood is a richly rewarding estate, but only in the satisfactions of loving and being loved.  The Father's Day gifts that are brought into the home are many pleasing kinds, but the best of all is that which works the miracle of remembrance.  It is a glorious day when the absent ones make it an occasion to come home again, after the days of waiting have turned into years of longing and when that is done, the faith of fatherhood is fully served.

[[image 1: Spencer's First Moto Plane Solo Flight May ##, 1914 - Hartford, Con. Noted: From: The Leaveporter - June 1956 (Newsmagazine)]] 

[[image 2: news clipping, reads, Hartford holds the distinction of having had the first municipal airport in the United States. Connecticut wrote the first aviation laws setting the down in 1911 and the Civil Aeronautics Authority adopted many of the rules when that agency was established in 1927. Hartford's aviation records goes back to 1878 when Prof. Richtel of Bridgeport flew hydrogen filled balloon from Colt Park. The perspiring professor hand-cranked a propeller mounted under the seat to get the balloon to up and down. In 1909 Perecival II. Spencer flew a home-made glider near Keney Park and Charles K. Hamibon gave the first New England exhibition in a heavier-than-air machine in New Britain. In 1915, Spencer built a flying boat and later put wheels on it and they flew it out of Goodwin Park. Hiram Perey Maxim became the city's first air casualty when he broke his leg while flying a glider in North Meadows.]]

[[image 3: Pilot Spencer at Wheel. 1914. Clipping reads: John Dwight Sullivan, Major General James E. Fechet, chief of the United States Air Corps, Colonel Conger D. Pratt, commanding officer of Mitchel Field, F. Trubee Davidson, Dr. Hugo Reiner, Captain E. V. Rickenbacker, Eleanor Smith, Ruth Nichols and Marjorie Stinson. The Early Birds will be preset at New York Aviation Show as guests of the Aviators' Post, No. 74 American Legion. The post has also presented the Early Birds with spaces within' show for official headquarters and for an historical exhibit. Hand noted: Photo two from photostats of newspaper clippings PH Spencer]]

[[image 4: Noted: First Engine Powered Airplane. H.P. Roberts (2 Cycle) Motor. Curtiss Type Flying Boat (Single Surface) Shoulder Yoke Control. Sold May 15-1914 (Conn. River-Hartford). P.H. "Spence" Spencer (Age 17 Yrs)]]