And we return to our American stories.

Up next, a story from Taylor Brown that originally appeared in the Garden and Gun magazine entitled,

Two for the Road, a son's eulogy for his father, or in this case,

his biker father. Here's Taylor Brown with his eulogy.

My first big time riding his prized Y-gl glide, I drop it in this parking lot.

We were on these back roads in North Florida somewhere, just pine trees and straight roads, tar snakes.

And we had stopped for gas and he said, do you want to ride it?

And so I said, oh, heck yeah, you know, I want to ride it. So I was pretty

excited. I was on the, on a, you know, a much smaller, lighter, less powerful bike. So riding his

was a big treat. It's a beautiful bike, you know, crow. He had modified it to be much more

powerful. It was a really neat bike. So we ride, you know, for a while and we pull into this, I think it was an old gas station that had a gravel lot. And, you know, I'm pretty excited and I stick my foot out, you know, to prop the bike up as we stop and my heel just start slipping on the gravel. And it was one of those things, sometimes these

things happen almost in slow motion. And, you know, this is a big 600 pound bike and it starts to just

heal over and I have not got the kick stand down in time. And I just feel it, you know, there's nothing

I can do past a certain point. I'm not strong enough to hold it up. So I drop it.

Obviously, there's going to be some scratches and dents and all that kind of stuff.

And I look at him.

My biggest worry is, you know, the way, how he's going to react.

You know, I feel just ashamed.

And he looks at me and he says, it happens to the best of us.

What a difficult thing to remember in the heat of the moment and to say to your son when he's just dropped your prize motorcycle.

I could tell that it wasn't necessarily even easy for him to say that. He was frustrated at the bike being dropped,

but that's not how he reacted. And that was something that, you know, I think probably my biggest

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