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#25912 07/13/12 12:32 PM
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A nurse took the tired, anxious Marine to the bedside.

"Your son is here," she said to the old man who was on his deathbed.

She had to repeat the words several times before the old man's eyes opened.

Heavily sedated because of the pain of his heart attack, he dimly saw the young uniformed Marine standing outside the oxygen tent.

He reached out his hand.

The Marine wrapped his toughened fingers around the old man's limp ones, squeezing a message of love and encouragement.

The nurse brought a chair so that the Marine could sit beside the bed.

All through the night the young Marine sat there in the poorly lighted ward, holding the old man's hand and offering him words of love and strength.

Occasionally, the nurse suggested that the Marine move away and rest awhile.

He refused.

Whenever the nurse came into the ward, the Marine was oblivious of her and of the night noises of the hospital - the clanking of the oxygen tank, the laughter of the night staff members exchanging greetings, the cries and moans of the other patients.

Now and then she heard him say a few gentle words. The dying man said nothing, only held tightly to this Marine's hand all through the night.

Along towards dawn, the old man died. The Marine released the now lifeless hand he had been holding and went to tell the nurse.

While she did what she had to do, he waited..

Finally, she returned. She started to offer words of sympathy, but the Marine interrupted her.

"Who was that man?" he asked.

The nurse was startled, "He was your father," she answered.

"No, ma'am, he wasn't," the Marine replied. "I never saw him before in my life."

"Then why didn't you say something when I took you to him?" asked the nurse.

The Marine replied, "I knew right away there had been a mistake, but I also knew he needed his son, and his son just wasn't here."

"When I realized that he was too sick to tell whether or not I was his son, knowing how much he needed me, I stayed."

After a moment of silence, the Marine said, "I came here tonight to find a Mr. William Grey. I came to inform him his son was Killed in Iraq today. What was this gentleman's name?"

The Nurse with tears in her eyes answered, "Mr. William Grey."

The next time someone needs you ... just be there. Stay.


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+ @ti2d #25917 07/13/12 02:36 PM
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+ @ti2d #25925 07/13/12 08:08 PM
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Gary,

There is so much power in just being, so much healing in knowing who would stand at your side at all costs.

In the past two days, two different friends have asked that I think of them, or know that they are thinking of me when I head out on my walkabout next week.

My reply: I carry all of you with me, wherever I go.

That simple thought lifts me higher than any summit.

All the best,
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MooseTracks #25926 07/13/12 08:33 PM
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A tear, a simple tear.


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+ @ti2d #25936 07/14/12 01:54 PM
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Powerful . . .

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Made me teary eyed.....I will definitely stay....


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