I vividly remember him having nightmares and when I would ask him what happened he said, “I dreamed the Japanese were coming at me.” Back then post-traumatic stress disorder wasn’t even a term. Not only did your father have physical issues because of the wounds he suffered in World War II, he also had nightmares of his experience in combat. When he couldn’t get the messages out that’s when he launched “The Twilight Zone.” He was quoted as saying an alien could say what a Democrat or Republican couldn’t. Despite problems with the censors, he stuck to his guns. Your father had such a strong moral code writing about injustices and racial prejudice. PHOTOS: Behind-the-scenes Classic Hollywood

“The Twilight Zone” episode that comes to mind, ‘Cavender Is Coming’ with Carol Burnett, was supposed to be a comedy and I think failed. I don’t think comedy writing was his strong suit. At first they were apprehensive because they connected him to “The Twilight Zone,” but within five minutes in my dad’s presence, they felt comfortable. I guess she was out a little longer than he expected so he was up there for quite a while. My mother had to go out for something and he decided to crawl up in the hole and hang upside down like a bat waiting for her. I guess there was a hole in the top of the trailer, which was like a window vent. When my parents first got married they lived in a trailer on campus.

My mother used to say “stop laughing, you are only encouraging him.” I had no idea that your father was such a funny guy who would do impressions, jokes and even wear lamp shades to get a laugh. Serling recently talked about her father and her memoir by phone from her home in Cayuga Heights, N.Y.

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