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So today my eldest son tuned 21. A happy day right? You would be correct up until I read my dad's post to him on FaceBook:

Happy Birthday Cameron!!! Remembering [my dad's wife] and I went down to Orlando to see you shortly after you were born and giving your father a camera outfit to take pictures of you...never did get the first picture.

Gee thanks for throwing me under the bus and demeaning me directly and by association. Did you consider that I was an E-3 in the Navy at the time stretching money just to buy necessities for my family (not to mention the wife running up a huge phone bill every month)? Did you consider that I was studying Nuclear Propulsion 16 hours a day? Did you ever expressedly tell me that was why you gave me the camera? You got the see him 3 or 4 times that year when we visited.

 In any case what good can come from that statement 20 years later posted where  the audience is mostly ex inlaws who think you and I are the devil incarnate? (this is not hyperbole, this is literal btw folks.My ex FiL managed to have me barred from seeing my kids over religion Ask me if you want to know more) Did you consider how hard I have worked to reestablish rapport with my son and how much I worked to convince him that you were worth reconnecting with as well?

Thanks for putting me in a position where I either have to essentially plead no lo contende to your statement by saying nothing, or adding  more negativity to my son's page on his birthday by addressing it there.

What were you thinking?