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StrngConviction:
Even though my Son has not been returned, I have this feeling he is starting to understand what is going on because of his age, something alot of  abducted children are not able to do. At one time he went as far as deleting my FB account and telling me he hated me. Now he on his own accord has asked me to be a friend on his account again. He comments on numerous pictures and this morning , 6:30 my time Messaged me " Happy Fathers Day ".
     I cant tell you how wonderful this felt. I wanted to acknowledge all LBPs Fathers and remind them that their time will come too when their children will realise what was going on, the fight we fought and the ground we stood...for them.
HAPPY FATHERS DAY GUYS !

phillyone:
I'm so happy for you! To all the LBP's, I know this is a hard day for you guys .. but hang in there and I'm still hoping and praying for you all. Like Strng Conviction's son, your kids will one day wish you "happy Fathers day"

Diane:
I'm so happy for you.   I just posted this on FB and this confirms the truth of my post.


To all the fathers who have been separated from your children because of international child abduction, I hope and pray that this year brings reunification. Many of you are among the greatest and most caring of fathers out there. Many have sacrificed everything, for years just to be close to the children you want to protect and cherish. You are truly among the best  and most wonderful of fathers,  and someday your children will know this was always the truth, no matter what lies anyone else has told them.

sara:
Nice article - open the link to see the video.

http://www.app.com/article/20120617/NJNEWS/306170027/His-ordeal-over-David-Goldman-finds-new-meaning-Father-s-Day
His ordeal over, David Goldman finds new meaning in Father's Day Goldman hopes to aid fight over abductions    11:12 PM, Jun 16, 2012




HIGHLANDS — David Goldman calls his father, Barry, “a fishing genius” who loves the sea.He still remembers the day when, as a boy, his dad, a geologist, decided to give up a corporate job and told him, “That’s it; we’re getting a second mortgage on the house, and we’re getting a charter boat.” His father started running the Old Salty II out of Belmar, he said.
“I kind of grew up on it,” David Goldman, 44, said during an interview last week on the outside deck of the Original Oyster, with his own charter fishing boat docked steps away in the Sandy Hook Bay Marina.
“My dad used to take me fishing as a little boy,” he said. “I’d sleep in the cabin until the fish started to bite, then I’d catch a few fish and go back to sleep. Sean does that now.”
Sean is the son for whom David Goldman launched an agonizing, high-profile, five-year international custody battle after the boy’s mother took the child to Brazil in June 2004, when he was 4, on the guise of visiting relatives. Once there, she filed for a divorce, remarried and never returned to the United States.
After his son’s mother died in 2008 from complications during childbirth, Goldman racked up immense legal bills fighting his child’s maternal grandparents and stepfather for custody, until the boy was finally returned to him in December 2009.
Since then, Barry, David and Sean Goldman typically spend Father’s Day doing what they seem to know best —– going fishing.
“Since he’s returned back, we’ve been going with the three of us — three generations,” David Goldman said.
He said that Sean, now 12, has even come up with a riddle for the situation: “Where could you have two fathers, three sons and a grandfather, but only three people on one boat?”
“It’s very special to share Father’s Day with my son while he is a boy,” David Goldman said.While the day seems to have a deeper meaning after the protracted custody battle, David Goldman said Father’s Day was particularly special to him when Sean was little, before he was taken away.

“When they’re that small, there’s something extra special about the innocence, and they’re always happy,” he said. “Every day was always special when we had the family together. Of course, there were the long, dark years.”Goldman said he spent six Father’s Days without his son.
“Every day was painful,” he said. “Like any holiday, I just wanted it to come and go. I wanted to keep busy. I would work on the boat, oftentimes taking fathers and sons out on charters. It was painful, but at least some people were enjoying Father’s Day. There was never an easy moment in life while he was abducted. … Now, it’s a wonderful day again.”
David Goldman said Sean’s return has also been especially meaningful for his own father.
“One of the things my Dad said when Sean came home is, ‘Not only did I get my grandson back, but I got my son back.’ So (Sean’s) abduction broke the hearts of my entire family, and now we’re back together.”
Since the ordeal, David Goldman has written a book: “A Father’s Love, One Man’s Unrelenting Battle to Bring His Abducted Son Home.” He has been lobbying Congress to pass the Sean and David Goldman International Child Abduction Prevention and Return Act of 2012, which would give the president power to hold countries complicit in international abductions accountable through methods including economic sanctions.
Goldman has started a nonprofit organization, the Bring Sean Home Foundation, designed to assist parents in similar situations as his with travel and legal bills. He said nearly 5,000 American children were abducted across the country’s borders in the past three years.
“Sean and I are the lucky ones,” Goldman said. “We are the lucky ones because we were reunited.”
Thousands of other families are not, he said.Since his return, Sean has settled into a normal life, playing basketball and baseball, playing video games, having sleepovers with friends, his father said.
Recently, Sean proclaimed “his worst day ever” when his team lost a basketball game and he had to study for a test, Goldman said.“Inside, I was like, ‘Thank God,’ ’’ Goldman said. “That’s what it should be. Little kids don’t need such big problems.”
The family has moved from Tinton Falls, to avoid publicity, to a nearby location that Goldman won’t disclose. He declined to let Sean talk to a reporter for this story, in an effort to keep his son protected from the media glare.
Goldman is engaged to Wendy Spain, a woman he met while he was going through the custody battle. She has two sons, 16 and 13, and the youngest has become Sean’s best friend, Goldman says.
As for his own dad, Goldman says, “He’s a very smart man who was able to get fishing down to a science. He probably forgot more about fishing than I’ll ever know. He was a fishing genius.”
But even more, Goldman said his father, along with his great-uncle Richard, is “extremely honest and humble and kind,” and he wants to see those values passed down to Sean.
His father has been married to his mother, Ellie, for almost 50 years, he said.The advice he learned from his own father, which he would like to pass down to Sean, is: “Be honest, be kind and be humble, and know that family is very, very important, and you can count on me.”

rduffiel:
Happy Fathers day to the BSH family and praying that the LBP  childrens will be will them this next Father day so they too can rejoice on this special day.
 

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