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I remember my great friend, 1LT Robert Hutchinson, killed in combat in Tay Ninh Province, Viet Nam, in January, 1968. May He Rest In Peace. I visit his grave every Memorial and Veterans Day.
Medal of Honor recipient and Army Special Forces veteran former Staff Sgt. Ronald J. Shurer died Thursday, according to the unit he served under in Afghanistan.
Prior to his passing, Shurer, 41, was undergoing treatment for lung cancer at Sibley Memorial Hospital in Washington, D.C. He said Wednesday that he would soon be taken off a ventilator, an often difficult and sometimes dangerous medical procedure.
Article in today's WaPo about how so many veterans have died in nursing homes from COVID-19. The stories of these men are amazing and to die gasping for air in a nursing home bed is a disgrace.
They Survived the Worst Battles of World War II. And Died of the Virus. "Inside the Holyoke Soldiers’ Home was a man who had served as a jailer to Hitler’s top aide. A man who had rescued Japanese kamikaze pilots from the sea. A man who carried memories of a concentration camp." ... "The virus has spread in more than 40 veterans’ homes in more than 20 states, leading to the deaths of at least 300 people."
"When Mr. Miller lay weak and gasping that weekend, his two daughters, in a car in the parking lot, pleaded with a nurse on duty over an iPhone to give him morphine or atropine to relieve his suffering. “She said, ‘we can’t do it,’ and she started to cry,” said his daughter Linda McKee. “There was no one there giving orders.” Michael Miller, at his father’s bedside, did the only thing he could do — moistened his lips with a sponge on a wooden stick. “At that point, he was choking,” Ms. McKee said. “He died with no care whatsoever.”
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I would like to remember my Great Uncle Robert French Abbott who passed away a few months ago. Robert enlisted in the U.S. Navy in February 1942. He attended a subchasers school in Miami, FL. and served on a subchaser in Atlantic-Pacific-Aleutians and Mid-Pacific. He took part in the Kwajalein invasion. He also attended Gunnery School in Washington, D.C. He was discharged in December 1945 as Gunners Mate, 1st class.
Robert's surviving widow Charlotte M. Abbott (Welty) was a WWII war widow as she was married first to Robert's first cousin John (Jack) Walter Abbott who served in the U.S. Navy as a Machinest's Mate 3rd class and was killed on the island of Guam on June 12, 1945.
I would also like to mention Robert's 2 older brothers: Carl Frederic Abbott who served with the 40 Tank Co. of Salinas (CA.) and was killed on Oct. 2, 1942 at Luzon in the Philippines and received posthumously a Bronze Star Medal with V device; Kirk Bedford Abbott who served in the Army Air Corps 1942-1945, 78th Service Squadron. He is also deceased several years ago.
This Memorial Day I want to remember the above again and share information (see the link below) about my unaccounted for Great-Uncle S/Sgt. Carl Frederic Abbott who survived the Bataan Death March, Camp O'Donnell but died in the Cabanatuan POW Camp. https://dpaa.secure.force.com/dpaaPr...0000000XfEXEA0
Article in today's WaPo about how so many veterans have died in nursing homes from COVID-19. The stories of these men are amazing and to die gasping for air in a nursing home bed is a disgrace.
They Survived the Worst Battles of World War II. And Died of the Virus. "Inside the Holyoke Soldiers’ Home was a man who had served as a jailer to Hitler’s top aide. A man who had rescued Japanese kamikaze pilots from the sea. A man who carried memories of a concentration camp." ... "The virus has spread in more than 40 veterans’ homes in more than 20 states, leading to the deaths of at least 300 people."
"When Mr. Miller lay weak and gasping that weekend, his two daughters, in a car in the parking lot, pleaded with a nurse on duty over an iPhone to give him morphine or atropine to relieve his suffering. “She said, ‘we can’t do it,’ and she started to cry,” said his daughter Linda McKee. “There was no one there giving orders.” Michael Miller, at his father’s bedside, did the only thing he could do — moistened his lips with a sponge on a wooden stick. “At that point, he was choking,” Ms. McKee said. “He died with no care whatsoever.”
The Wall has changed since it left Indianhead Naval Station. Unfortunately it continues to grow.
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