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Adios Pop Update

Sam06Sam06 Member Posts: 21,244 ✭✭✭✭
edited February 2021 in General Discussion

My dad died last night. He was 89 and has had dementia for the last 4 years. He was in a Old folks home in the memory care ward and died in his sleep.


This may sound callous but he is in a better place now and I am relieved he died in his sleep and out of pain. He still knew who I was but not much else. It has been really sad seeing him decline over the last few months. The bad thing is I was leaving today to go see him. I sure would have liked to see him one last time, tell him I love him and give him a hug.


Dad was a Navy Corpsman and was assigned to the 1st Marine Regiment in the Korean war. He was with them all the way through to the end. After the war he was assigned to a hospital in TX and went to NBC school. He graduated top of his class and was awarded the honor to go see an Atom Bomb detonate. He had a relapse of malaria and didn't get to see the bomb explode but some of his buddies did. They all died in the mid 1960's.


He was good man and I loved him but I hated to see what dementia had done to him.


Bye Dad

RLTW

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