Big Dirk!

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Michael Alexander

February 14, 2008, 08:13:02 AM
Hey Dalene, I found another scan of your dad at work... similar to the other one...
OPS 1976-1982 : CBC 1982-1988

Dalene Steenkamp (Coetzee)

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February 14, 2008, 09:41:27 AM
 :emot78:      bighug     bighug

NOW you have me in tears, but you are also my hero!

Thank you so much, Mike!
Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier. Friendship is a sheltering tree.

To be clever enough to get a great deal of money, one must be stupid enough to want it.

Those who bring sunshine to the lives of other cannot keep it from themselves.

Dalene Steenkamp (Coetzee)

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February 14, 2008, 09:45:54 AM
Forgot to mention  -  that photo was taken after his first heart operation  -  I was in St. 3, so it was in 1975.  My God, look how thin he was then!

One thing about him I will never forget.  Till his last day on this earth - his back was always rigid and his shoulders drawn back as if saying  -  I am proud to be Dirk Coetzee and I'm not saying sorry that I walk the face of this earth.
Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier. Friendship is a sheltering tree.

To be clever enough to get a great deal of money, one must be stupid enough to want it.

Those who bring sunshine to the lives of other cannot keep it from themselves.

Dalene Steenkamp (Coetzee)

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February 14, 2008, 10:33:40 AM
I never saw where you posted the other one? 
Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier. Friendship is a sheltering tree.

To be clever enough to get a great deal of money, one must be stupid enough to want it.

Those who bring sunshine to the lives of other cannot keep it from themselves.

Michael Alexander

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February 14, 2008, 10:51:57 AM
Dalene, sorry, somewhere over the last few months , I scanned a similar pic, the only difference was that it was to do with the first black policeman serving in the Omund branch of the SWAP. I do not remember where I put, archive for later, in here or on the main site....Your old man looked exactly the same, stiff upper back.... scared the shit outta me as a youngster, especially the sunday they came to pick my dad up for streaking/......
OPS 1976-1982 : CBC 1982-1988

Michael Alexander

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August 06, 2008, 12:42:16 PM
Here are a few more that I just scanned... Strange to see him without a cap on?

OPS 1976-1982 : CBC 1982-1988

Dalene Steenkamp (Coetzee)

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August 06, 2008, 06:45:17 PM
Mike, I don't have enough words to thank you for these.  I am saving them all to my computer.  My brother Leon still has the original one of my dad and uncle Bill Fry.

Unbelievable to see how big and strong he was way back then.  Look as his ENORMOUS hands.....   dammit, I miss him so much!
Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier. Friendship is a sheltering tree.

To be clever enough to get a great deal of money, one must be stupid enough to want it.

Those who bring sunshine to the lives of other cannot keep it from themselves.
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