Truly the greatest generation. A hero.puma guy wrote: ↑Mon Jan 29, 2024 9:16 amSounds like your dad was truly one of the best of The Greatest Generation.The Annoyed Man wrote: ↑Sun Jan 28, 2024 11:31 pmIt’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.
I am saddened by anyone who gets this cancer. The pain, but the loss of appetite, ends any chance of “ let’s get some dinner” for caring family and friends. You realize how much of our interaction with friends and family revolves around a meal. Just another insult this horrible cancer throws at you.