Unsure of the road to God, “I started praying,” she said. A year later, on her birthday June 11, a card from her great-aunt Edna LoMonico included something unexpected: a year of Mass remembrances for ...

DEAR ERIC: How long do you keep greeting cards like birthday, congratulations, holidays, thank you, and so on? I understand keeping those with sentimental value, but I tend to keep all of them.

Imagine your dad handing you a card for your birthday... and it has a few alterations. Comedian Katherine Ryan has experienced this bluntly honest dad-phenomenon every year for the last 26 years.

After the video was posted in March, people from all over the country – and even as far away as Africa – reached out to him to cheer him on, sending messages and birthday cards to the veteran.