My Father's Grit Story

Grit is described as courage and resolve and strength of character. My definition of grit is the ability to overcome challenging obstacles that appear in life. These definitions both sound like my dad. My dad has gone through a lot in life and has shown more grit than anyone I know. He is to this day my role model and an inspiration for all the grit he has shown.
My dad’s grit story started at really young age. It wasn’t like he was drafted into the army at any young, but the worst thing happened to any kid around his age (4). My dad had lost his dad to a very bad heart disease. My dad had to grow up without a father. He’s dad always wanted my dad to grow up and be happy and grow up successful. Now with his father dying his grades slipped, but with his mom being a school teacher and my dad’s ability to overcome such a challenge like losing his father. His grades improved to where he was offered a scholarship to nursing school.
He was only 2 years into medical school, and he was never really good at book work, but there was stuff my dad was good at. He was good with hands on learning. He went to school for mechanical engineering. He was able to graduate with a four year bachelor degree from the University of Wisconsin Platteville. Now having graduated from the University of Platteville Wisconsin my dad had moved to Indiana with love of his life my mom. It was hard moving for him because his whole family lived in Wisconsin and now he’ll be far away from them. Plus he moved into a new community and didn’t know what to