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SPENDING TIME WITH HIS SON IS A DAILY COMMITMENT. >> ON FATHER’S DAY, PLENTY OF KIDS PULL UP A CHAIR, FOR SUMMERTIME CHAT WITH DAD. PAT STEINBACH WOULD GIVE ANYTHING. >> I CAN STILL PICTURE HIM WHEN HE IS LITTLE, 8, 9, 10 YEARS OLD. HAPPY FATHER’S DAY, AND JUST A SMILE. >> 15 MONTHS AGO, HIS BOY DIED OF AN ACCIDENTAL HEROIN AND FENTANYL OVERDOSE. THIS WEEKEND HURT MORE THA MOST. >> YES, BECAUSE I’M STILL MATTHEW’S DAD. >> WHEN PAT LOST HIS DAD, FATHER’S DAY WAS TOUGH. BUT IT’S WORSE, HE SAYS, WHEN FATHER LOSES HIS BOY. >> I ALWAYS THINK OF HIM. I CAN TELL YOU ALL DAY LONG I THINK OF HIM. PEOPLE HONK AND WAVE ALL THE TIME. >> BECAUSE THIS DEVOTED DAD SITS WITH HIS SON IN GLENDALE CEMETERY FOR AN HOUR EVERY MORNIN WHEN FEBRUARY’S WIND CHILLS DROPPED TO 40 BELO PAT WORE 4 LAYERS, BUT HE WAS HERE WHEN THAT SNOW MELTED AND FLOWERS STARTED BUDDING? PAT WAS HERE, SPRING CLEANING MATTHEW’S HEADSTON AND NOW THAT IT’S JUNE? AND THOSE FLOWERS ARE IN FULL BLOOM? HE’S STILL HERE EVERY DAY, READING HIS BOOK AND CHATTING WITH FOLKS WHO STOP B >> WE HAVE A LOT OF GRIEF IN US, BUT WHEN SOMEBODY STOPS BY AND TALKS TO ME, I JUST FEEL GOOD. >> BUT MOSTLY, PAT STEINBACH IS SIMPLY HERE BEING A FATHER TO THE SON HE WILL ALWAYS LOV >> WHEN I CAME OUT HER -- WHEN I CAME OUT HERE THAT NIGHT AFTER HE DIED, AND I LAID ON TOP OF THE FLOWERS, I TOLD HIM, MATTHEW, I’M NEVER GOING TO LET YOU BE FORGOTTEN. I’M NOT GOING TO DO IT. AND I THINK, IN A WAY, WE HAVE SUCCEEDED. >> PAT KNOWS DAILY CEMETERY VISITS AREN’T FOR EVERYONE WHO GRIEVES, EVEN HIS WIFE. BUT FOR HIM, IT HELPS. WHICH IS WHY HE’S THERE EVERY DAY. ERIC HANSON, ����vlog 8 NEWS, IOWA'