9/22/15- Dear Tom, I would like to recognize my husband & my friend, Michael Copeland. The summer of 2013 changed our lives forever when we heard the news that we were expecting our first child. I had just completed my bachelor’s degree while my husband (then fiancé) was a semester away from completing what was […]
9/15/15- Dear Tom, I can say so many things about this man. He is an all-around phenomenal person and one of my best friends. Johnny aka “Scooby” is the chief deputy of the Lincoln county sheriff’s department in Brookhaven, MS. Recently tragedy struck a part of his life. His ex-wife’s life was senselessly taken at […]
9/08/15- Dear Tom, Please consider my husband, Leon Slaughter, Sr. for the Real Fathers Real Men acknowledgement. Our families have been in the same community for over 50 years but we didn’t meet until 1991. I was recently divorced with 5 children ages 3-15. I was surprised on our first date, when he asked why […]
8/25/15- Dear Tom, I would like to recognize, my husband Henry Montgomery as a real father and definitely a real man. In 2000, I was a single mom of 2, working and providing for my family. I lucked up and met henry Montgomery while picking up my nephew from work (henry was his manager). Every […]
8/18/15- Dear Tom, We would like to nominate our father, Kojo Xavier Johnson, for a real father’s real men recognition. Our first memories of our father are of him in his black and gold uniform with his instruments. He is a martial artist in the tradition Capoeira Angola, which originated in West Africa and took […]
8/11/15- Dear Tom, I would like to nominate my son to be the recipient of your generosity for Real Fathers Real Men. Jai is a great father to his two children, and has willingly accepted responsibility for the children of his fiancée who has three of her own. He has also accepted the care of […]
8/4/15- Dear Tom, Good morning tom, Sybil and J! I am excited to nominate my stepfather Ishman “Bo Show” Dudley for this week’s Real Father Real Men. When daddy “bo” asked my mother for her hand in marriage 20 years ago, he promised her she would always have a roof over her head and […]
7/28/15- Dear Tom, I believe my father deserves to be selected to be a real father winner because he is amazing. After my parents divorced my father raised me and my sister. From adolescence to womanhood he taught us everything. He has always has been there for us in every way. However, that is […]
7/21/15- Dear Tom, George McCreary is a real father and a real man. He’s worked as a janitorial supervisor for our local community college for 31 years! George’s own father died when he was twelve years old, so he went to work at a fruit stand to help his mother and four siblings. since […]
7/07/15- Dear Tom, My dad is an incredible, god-fearing family man. He is the primary caretaker of my mom who is disabled due a severe neck injury. He was diagnosed with prostate cancer over a year ago and that hasn’t slowed him down one bit! He still drives the church van, is on the […]
My name is Janay Peters and I am writing this letter about of my grandfather Reginald Peters, because I believe he is a great definition of a real man! My grandfather served in the military and was married until he lost his wife to brain and lung cancer over five years ago. Shortly after […]
Dear Tom, My husband Jimmie Peake Jr., is the greatest person you could ever meet. My husband was a Marine and never in his life would he meet a stranger. Jimmie is a pastor of Greater New Zion Baptist Church in Spartanburg, SC and he has been there for 10 years this year. God has […]
