My Father, Part Three

George F. Walker, one of Canada’s most prolific and popular playwrights, pens an elegy to his father in seven parts. Esoterica will syndicate one part each day leading up to Father’s Day.

By George F. Walker

I forgot something. Probably because there’s so much to remember. This was about something an officer who was guarding my father in that prison said to him as he was being escorted out.

“Hey, Mac, if you want to join the military so badly maybe you should sign up for your own when you get home.” A wisecrack.

But my father, took it as a …