Re: OT: Nice story. Don't know if true but...

[G. Morgan <alarmpro@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 28 Oct 2006 22:07:25 -0400, "Robert L Bass"
<robertbass1@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>A nurse took the tired, anxious young man to the bedside. "Your son's here," she said to the old man.
>She had to repeat the words several times before the patient's eyes opened.
>Heavily sedated because of the pain of his heart attack, he dimly saw the young uniformed young man standing outside the oxygen
>tent. He reached out his hand. The young man 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 young man 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 young man move away and rest a while.
>He refused. Whenever the nurse came into the ward, the young man 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 moan of the other patients.
>Now and then she heard him say a few gentle words. The dying man said nothing, only held tightly to his son all through the night.
>Along towards dawn, the old man died. The young man 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 young man interrupted her. "Who was that man?" he asked.
>The nurse was startled, "He was your father." she answered.
>"No, he wasn't," the young man replied. "I never saw him before in my life."
>"Then why didn't you say something when I took you to him?"
>"I knew right away there had been a mistake, but I also knew he needed his son, and his son just wasn't there.
>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."


It may or not be true Robert, but it is a nice story.  Try reading a
book series "Chicken Soup For The Soul", I liked it.

Look man, I really don't want you to die, Okay?  I realize that my
life is more complete with you to argue with.  Get well Bro.



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-Graham
(remove the double e's to email)