text:  When he got out of the Army, he was the first black supervisor at John Deere in 1968, where he worked for 41 years at John Deere. And then tragedy strikes in 2008. My father was training for his 13th Chicago Marathon, and he had a bicycle accident. And so he was one week from his birthday and nine months from retirement. And, yeah, it was rough. And so that put a big hole in our family, and he died.