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puma guy wrote: ↑Tue Sep 03, 2024 8:54 pm Prayers for his family, friends and loved ones. RIP, sir.

puma guy wrote: ↑Mon Jan 29, 2024 9:16 am

The Annoyed Man wrote: ↑Sun Jan 28, 2024 11:31 pm

puma guy wrote: ↑Sat Jan 27, 2024 9:06 pm

The Annoyed Man wrote: ↑Sat Jan 27, 2024 6:47 pm He has lost SO much weight! It’s really sad.

I noticed that as well. If his pancreatic cancer is localized, which I pray it is, his chances for survival is 27% about 10% if it has spread. His comment about the last time we may see him on camera does not bode well. I agree with you, it is really sad.

It’s what took my dad's life. He lasted for 4-1/2 months after it was discovered. It was too late, and had already metastasized to his liver and his spine. It was a hard dying, but he took it in stride because he sincerely believed that he was supposed to have died with his men in Cushman’s Pocket in Iwo Jima, and he didn’t. So he had vowed to live every day after he came off the battlefield as if it was a gift, and he did. He told us, when he found out that he was terminally ill, that he had no regrets and was grateful for the 45 years he’d had after the war, and he accepted his fate with as much grace and stoicism as he could summon.

It looks to me like Paul Harrell is taking a page from the same book.

Sounds like your dad was truly one of the best of The Greatest Generation.