Daughter and son-in-law of an OCS friend are in the hospital in Georgia with Covid 2. She’s not doing well and is facing a ventilator. The dreaded ventilator. Off of which most do not come before passing.
The black bean drawing is an old Texas saying that stems from the 1843 capture of some Texans and would be Texans who were fighting off a Mexico invasion of the then-Republic of Texas. Drawing a black bean meant they would be executed.
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He said he was opposed to it. Just a gut feeling, he contended. Then I read him something one of my OCS buds wrote, about it being our social duty to get with the program, and he caved. Went to Walgreen’s for a Pfizer jab and came back with his “passport,” the proof-of-vax card that inevitably will be used for many things as the pandemic continues. Pleased with himself. As are we.
UPDATE: Months later, I wish I hadn’t convinced him, as the vax is causing medical trouble for many. I have decided against the second booster. Had a dream about refusing a third one.
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“I had Covid back in December 2020, hospitalized for four days, I received my two Moderna shots in March, and ouch, Covid breakthrough in June this year, with pneumonia. Quite a surprise, and another recovery in progress. Covid 2 was and is no fun.”
Otherwise known as the Delta variant. The Moderna breached, oh my.
From an OCS bud on our group.io forum
UPDATE: Moderna now recommending third shot as booster.
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Are in the works. Colonel Art says the VA will have Russ’s ground military marker soon and I recently got the contract for the upright civilian stone and sent it back with half the fee as specified. So maybe we won’t have to wait until November, due to a lack of granite after the pandemic. Fitting that the civilian stone will be of Georgia Grey granite, since he and me and Colonel Art all graduated from the Benning School for Boys. A granite that seems to turn sky (or Infantry) blue in direct sunlight. Allllriight.
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I’m going to buy a civilian tombstone for Russ, copying his father’s & mother’s, adding only Beloved Son and Russ’s birth and death dates. His father, Rev. F.M. Wheat’s stone has a quotation from Corinthians: “At home with the Lord.”
I’ll use that, too. I like its double-meaning, whatever was meant in the New Testament (I’m not a Christian), plus an Afterlife meaning as well.
Retired Colonel Art, who may not want his last name used, is leading the effort to get a military stone recognizing Russ’s service as a Vietnam combat infantry lieutenant platoon leader. Who was wounded in both legs, still wearing the scars when he transitioned at age 81. Hope you’re enjoying yourself, Russ.
In Higgins, Texas, way up in the panhandle, Bar and I found that our old OCS friend Russ Wheat has only the funeral home’s plastic marker on his grave. So his classmates are working to get him a military headstone from the Veterans Administration. Stymied so far by a lack of his DD 214 separation document. The funeral home never got a copy nor had any idea Russ was a Vietnam combat veteran. The plot thickens. Stay tuned.
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The Hilton Garden Inn in Oklahoma City, to be exact. All booked for the 25th, 26th, and 27th. Amtrak all the way. All to get to Higgins in the northernmost panhandle of Texas to see Russ’s grave. Hopefully no tornadoes. Certainly won’t be any ice storms. Yay!
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THE TEXAS SCRIBBLER 