Steven Wang
[English translation follows Chinese]
爸爸節前夕，父親於八月六日離世於美國加州舊金山灣區，享年102。
2017年陪伴家父走訪福州，參加姪孫的婚禮，他非常高興見到親戚及眾多晚輩。離開返美時，當地的親戚歡迎他羿年再次返鄉，他與年輕的同輩涙別，父親想到可能這已經是最後一次了。這陌生的城市，剎那間 ，父親久別重逢遠方的家鄉，成為我夢中的「橄欖樹」。
唸高中時 ，有天晚上，父親自林姓世交友人處步行回家，途中遇見一男子在路邊停止的遊覽車上對一女子動粗 ，父親立即上前干涉，讓該女子脫離困境。聽完父親自述，全家都捏一把冷汗。父親一向為人正直，也總以嘻笑方式娛悅他人。（世交林聲印先生為我所認識的校友林得基之父親。）
唸大學時，外雙溪中社路二段的公寓，遭同一棟階梯式樓層鄰居讀高中的兒子破窗侵入，父親與我埋伏將他扣住，報警處理押到局裡，對方母親隨後趕來跪著哭求，父親心軟，向警方說沒有遺失什麼貴重物品，只要賠償窗戶，做個筆錄，給予一個告誡結案。威嚴父親背後的慈愛留給我永遠的思念。
On the eve of Taiwanese Father's Day [August 8], my father passed away on August 6 in San Francisco Bay Area, California, at the age of 102.
In 2017, I accompanied my father to visit his hometown Fuzhou, China and attended the wedding of his grand nephew. He was very happy to see many relatives and younger generations. Before flying back to US, relatives invited my father to visit again following year. My father said goodbye to his younger peers in tears, thinking that this might be the last time. In this strange city, my father reunited with his distant hometown after a long absence, it suddenly became the "Olive Tree" in my dream. (n.b. During Taiwan’s martial law period, “Olive Tree” sometimes implied tabooed topic of missing hometown in China after Communist took over the mainland. )
When I was in high school, one night, my father was walking home from a friend Mr. Lin’s house. On the way, he encountered a man who was violently assaulting a woman on a tourist bus stopped by the roadside. My father immediately stepped forward to intervene to free the woman from the predicament. After listening to the father's self-narration, the whole family broke into a cold sweat. Father had always been a man of integrity, and always entertained others with a good laugh. (Mr. Lin Sheng Yin, a family friend, is the father of my schoolmate Lin De Jih.)
When I was in college, my apartment on the second section of Zhongshe Road, Waishuangxi, was broken into by a neighbor’s son who was in high school. My father and I ambushed him and detained him. We called the police and took him to the police station. When his mother rushed to the station, she kneeled down and cried. My father relented and told the police that nothing valuable was lost, and that the teenager only needed to pay for the window, give a record, and get a warning to close the case. The kindness of my strict father made me miss him forever.