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From: "Nancy Posey" <>
Subject: Re: medical reasons
Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2000 18:17:57 -0800
References: <001001c05e39$8899c6e0$a3c7a3d1@dmcgowan>


My father told me about a cousin who died and for me to let things lie. "He
died".

Mary Gentry was very kind and pulled his obit and I found out what had
happened. After piecing everything together, the truth is this.

My cousin killed himself due to severe shell shock truama from being on the
USS Arizona when it was bombed in Pearl Harbor. He was in the water with
body parts floating all around him. When he got home, no one in the family
wanted to talk with him about it and kept telling him to stop thinking about
it. My cousin became a drinker and took his own life because of his mental
pain.

I would much rather have know the truth than to know "he died". We all die.
He was a brave man who was unable to bear what he saw during the war. That
is worthwhile to me. Maybe not to Walt Davies, but to me I love my cousin
more for what he went through.

Thank you for listening and thank you Mary for your sweet honesty and
feeling in your response to "Re: "Why do you need to know these
things.....?"

Nancy Posey
Graham, WA


----- Original Message -----
From: Donna Reilley McGowan <>
To: <>
Sent: Monday, December 04, 2000 1:31 PM
Subject: wet brain/medical reasons


> My reply here, Walt, is that this info is important to me because of
medical
> problems in my family. This is not just supercilious information. I have
> traced severe alcoholism on some lines & myocardial infarction on others
> right down the line. Being aware of these conditions & taking steps seems
> the smart thing to do to me. Just my opinion.
> Donna
>
>
> ---- Original Message -----
> From: <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Monday, December 04, 2000 12:48 PM
> Subject: Re: wet brain
>
>
> > For the life of me I can't figure out why people have to know so much
> about
> > why or what a person died from. I here people wanting to know what this
> or
> > that means and of all things they want the most horrible of documents
the
> > autopsy report. Why do you need to know these things, they don't have
> > anything that would help anyone in searching their family they just tell
> why
> > or how a person died.
> > I would think that if one was interested in searching their family their
> time
> > would be better spent on other thing.
> > Sometimes as my cousin Julie says: "somethings are better left alone"
> > Just my opinion folks
> > Walt Davies
> >
> >
>

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