What is one of your best recollections of something your father did that impressed you about him? ~

     He adopted me,
and gave me a home.
and He taught me the
construction trades
that i use today.
 Auto accident when 
i was 13 took him away
but what an awesome dude.

My mother's brother was the positive male role model in my life.  God knows how I would have turned out without him.  He was kind, gentle, and interested in others. He had a distinctive voice which I enjoyed.  I remember him at Christmas smoking his pipe, sitting in his big chair, he was awesome. I sure do miss him. He wore a leather jacket and an Indiana Jones hat, was much better looking than Harrison Ford.  He had this old typewriter, way old school, before the electric typewriter even.  My Uncle would two finger type fairly fast.  He could play the Organ and had a very big one he must have gotten out of a small church.  I sure do miss him. 

the way he was a hard worker, he was a tailor

My father was a 'mean' drunk.  He was not easy to like.  However, he was some sort of 'war hero' from WW2. He did some stuff I could not do. He was a paratrooper and jumped out of airplanes during the Normandy Invasion and also Holland. Then for a year or two had to endure the horrors of war as the allies finished off the enemy soldiers in Germany. 

My dad was quite kind to strangers and most animals. 

Exactly the same as yours.

My best memory of him was him teaching me to ride a bike.  I had to be less than five years old. 

Dad took my older siblings and a couple of friends and me to see "Night of the Living Dead" for the first time. I was about 13.
It was the third feature of a triple feature at a drive-in theater. So, it was pretty late when we saw the movie.
Dad had been working in the garage the whole day and he hadn't changed clothes before we went to the movies. 
He wore work pants and a white T-shirt.