Sadness. Just got more bad news (extended family - nothing unexpected)
I am about to lose another old uncle, it seems.
He was a Korean War Marine Vet (Gunnery Sergeant, in rank - decorated with the Silver Cross), but as bad ass as he has always been, he is no match for Father Time. Seventy seven years is a good, round, composite number, though - a damn god run! I am proud to have known him and I am glad that his recent misery ( in the past three years - type two diabetes onset leading to thyroid failure, lower extremities going dark and numb, heart failure, now kidney failure) is almost at an end.
(I was his son who I grew up with, who was accidentally shot by the son's loving wife after a hunting trip, I have mentioned. )
