R Lee Ermy passed away
Apr 16, 2018 21:12:02 #
Apr 16, 2018 21:32:32 #
son of witless wrote:
http://www.cnn.com/2018/04/16/entertainment/r-lee-ermey-obit/index.html
You beat me to it. I just read about it myself. He was quite a guy.
Apr 16, 2018 21:38:10 #
Loki wrote:
You beat me to it. I just read about it myself. He was quite a guy.
I'm glad he was an American. I'd hate to think of a guy that tough as an enemy.
Apr 17, 2018 05:46:08 #
son of witless wrote:
I'm glad he was an American. I'd hate to think of a guy that tough as an enemy.
Agreed.
Apr 17, 2018 07:17:02 #
son of witless wrote:
I'm glad he was an American. I'd hate to think of a guy that tough as an enemy.
I'm guessing he's up stairs now, drilling St. Peter.
Apr 17, 2018 10:38:14 #
Apr 17, 2018 11:09:00 #
Loki wrote:
You beat me to it. I just read about it myself. He was quite a guy.
His death was quite a shock to me. When I talked with him at the Quantico Modern Day Marine Expo a few months ago, he appeared in very good health for his age, but apparently pneumonia is often a deadly disease for anyone over sixty.
Apr 17, 2018 11:39:23 #
Trooper745 wrote:
His death was quite a shock to me. When I talked with him at the Quantico Modern Day Marine Expo a few months ago, he appeared in very good health for his age, but apparently pneumonia is often a deadly disease for anyone over sixty.
Wow, you got to meet him.
Apr 17, 2018 12:13:17 #
son of witless wrote:
Wow, you got to meet him.
Yes, our paths have crossed a couple of times. Thankfully, we got some pictures of me and my wife talking with him at our last trip to Quantico. In one of our earlier conversations, we discovered that we were both stationed at MCRD San Diego way back in 1965, but we did not meet at that time.
Apr 17, 2018 12:21:25 #
Trooper745 wrote:
His death was quite a shock to me. When I talked with him at the Quantico Modern Day Marine Expo a few months ago, he appeared in very good health for his age, but apparently pneumonia is often a deadly disease for anyone over sixty.
It finally got my grandma at age 97. Apparently nothing else could. At 90 she would still go out to her garden and hoe corn and hill up the 'taters.
Apr 17, 2018 12:23:49 #
Trooper745 wrote:
His death was quite a shock to me. When I talked with him at the Quantico Modern Day Marine Expo a few months ago, he appeared in very good health for his age, but apparently pneumonia is often a deadly disease for anyone over sixty.
He was at Smoky Mountain Knife Works a while back. (I used to go by there a lot when I had to go to Knoxville frequently on business). Doing, among other things, a Glock promotion. (Like I needed any convincing. I hate Glocks. That's why I bought three of them over the years.) LOL
Apr 17, 2018 12:33:40 #
Loki wrote:
It finally got my grandma at age 97. Apparently nothing else could. At 90 she would still go out to her garden and hoe corn and hill up the 'taters.
I don't know why I never realized how deadly pneumonia was. I often heard of, and talked to, people that had pneumonia, and got over it. I had pneumonia twice while younger, got over it reasonably easily, but in 2017, I had it again and it darn near did me in.
Like I said, if you're over 60, and you start having some lung congestion, run, don't walk, to the doctor or emergency room. A delay of a few hours can be deadly. I went from breathing normal, to needing an ambulance, in about 12 hours. Then twelve days in hospital.
Apr 17, 2018 12:49:02 #
Trooper745 wrote:
I don't know why I never realized how deadly pneum... (show quote)
I've known many over the years who had " walking Pneumonia " walking around for weeks until it hospitalized them.
Apr 17, 2018 20:37:06 #
Loki wrote:
It finally got my grandma at age 97. Apparently nothing else could. At 90 she would still go out to her garden and hoe corn and hill up the 'taters.
My grandmother was like that. They don’t make them like that anymore. Our great loss.
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