Singing praises for his father, Bryan penned that Mike was a man who meant nothing but the best for everyone and put everyone in the same bracket when it came to moral worth.
Being a military man, Mike was also willing to fight for his belief and his nation. Yet, he firmly believed that a person or a country, regardless of scale, defined itself on what they were willing to fight for.
Evidently, the wisened marine instilled quite a few invaluable moral values in Bryan—values that made him into the man he is today. For Bryan, his dad was the man who,
...always cautioned me not to be seduced by attitude over thought. Style over substance. Personality over character. Volume over truth. Maybe best of all this man has never lost his outrage at the injustices in the world.
