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[QUOTE="Crusty, post: 1124765, member: 2265"]
Eight years ago my step dad was slowly dying from liver failure. He was a very private man and did not tell anybody. A WWII Navy Vet who was at Normandy on a LST.  (Never talked about it until the last year of his life - I never knew until then.) He was a quiet man and it was not easy to share small talk or strike up a conversation at will so calling him long distance were mainly short calls.

He was a hard working sheet metal worker and a life-long Yankees fan (but he hated A Rod even back then). He loved baseball and watched every night.

We always tried to get up to Utica every summer to spend a few days with him. In his last year, = the Utica Blue Sox were no more - so I took him to a Chiefs game. He absolutely loved it. Smiled the whole game, was a real chatterbox. It was so nice to see him happy.

He passed away that November. I went up to see him in the hospital and he talked about that game and the Yankees.

When I think of him, I think of that game. The Chiefs are a wonderful asset for the community. You should all take advantage of it. Going to a ball game is fun and take it from me - the memories are priceless
RIP Charlie
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