By Andrew Gould Michael Phelps announced earlier this week that his father, Fred, passed away. The decorated swimmer mourned his father’s death in an Instagram post shared on Monday. “You’ll always be my dad… And I’ll always be your son… Love you dad and I will miss you,” Michael Phelps wrote. Michael Phelps posted three photos along with the sad news. The first is an older one of him standing next to his dad in a Maryland state trooper uniform. Fred is admirably watching Michael hold one of his young children in another picture and is likely holding one of his grandchildren in the third shot….