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Dad a couple of weeks before he died - 727Sky - 11-24-2022
I just received this from my brother. I did not even know someone had interviewed him. Parkinson’s had pretty much wiped out his facial expressions, which was causing a lot of the breathless/choking/coughing issues, and his hearing was bad enough that the guys were having to speak pretty loud to him and even then he couldn’t always understand them. He was dead 3 weeks later after 3 strokes. At that point, he was within days of being 95, and he weighed just over 120 pounds, down 60 pounds from his former size. Knowing how weak he was, the effort he was putting out in that video shows how much he wanted to give those guys a memorable talk. A very sad example of a very vital hard working man of 95. At 75 he had to sell his airplane because his sight was getting so bad. Toward the end his sight, hearing, and being very frail made for a guy who tried all his life but old age finally got him. A war buddy of his told me dad was the last man alive in is squad twice mostly because he took over a machine gun position on both occasions after the machine gun crew was killed or disabled.
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