[sweet_diane]

Thank you.

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

Prayers from my family to yours.

[ex-snook]

God Bless your Dad and the whole family. He has this one last mission to complete and he will go home to God in the Wild Blue Yonder.

[billbears]

prayers lifted up for your family right now for peace and strength

[Quilla]

Prayers going out for you and your family, Diane. My father was also a B-17 pilot in WWII (8th Air Force, 385th Bomb Group). He was a man of integrity and honor, humor and love, my hero. I lost him six years ago but still talk to him every day. Rest in the knowledge that you are the daughter of one of America's finest.

[Cboldt]

You and your family are in my prayers. May God provide all of you with strength of your spiritual convictions.

[jtminton]

Prayers sent! JG, don't you run a prayer ping list?

[MoralSense]

God bless your Dad, Dianne. I was on dialysis for six years, and it had a mortality rate like a combat infantry platoon. I'm sure you've made the right choice.

[Skywarner]

Actually, it is we who should thank you and your father for his service.

My father, who was with the 509th Composite Group on Tinian, recently passed away as well. We were faced with a similar decision as yours. He was coherent enough to make the choice himself. My only regret was that he passed away before we were able to get to the hospital that morning (we were spending every available hour with him for over 40 days).

These WWII vets were truly from the greatest generation.

[GrandMoM]

God be with you and your family. I know how hard it has been for you, I took care of my father with alzheimer's for the last two years of his life. It is devastating for the family members. I pray GOD takes him home soon.

[TXBSAFH]

Prayers.

[sweet_diane]

Could you ping your list? Thank you.

[Tijeras_Slim]

Prayers for a brave man and his family.

[skeeter]

For your dad...

High Flight

Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of earth
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
Of sun-split clouds - and done a hundred things
You have not dreamed of - wheeled and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence. Hov'ring there
I've chased the shouting wind along, and flung
My eager craft through footless halls of air.
Up, up the long delirious, burning blue,
I've topped the windswept heights with easy grace
Where never lark, or even eagle flew -
And, while with silent lifting mind I've trod
The high unsurpassed sanctity of space,
Put out my hand and touched the face of God.

[Johnny Gage]

     
VETERAN PRAYER PING

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

Offering my prayers.

[Conservomax]

Another soldier fades away. He seems to have had a good life.

My father is a 78 year old ex-marine, he is still going strong, thank god, (sometimes too strong).

[Texagirl4W]

Prayers and comfort for you and your family. Your father sounds like one great man. Cherish the memories.

[etabeta]

prayers going up for your father and hero. Your heart wrenching decision is a gift of love for your dad, giving him his remaining time within the family, loved, is a lot better than prolonging his misery. God bless him, you and your family.

[trussell]

Prayer ping.

Please post your replies to sweet_diane

sweet_diane, My prayers going up for your family now.

billbears, Johnny Gage- thank you for the pings.

Blessings,
Trussell


If you want on or off my prayer ping list, please let me know. All requests happily honored.

[Pegita]

Heavenly Father, we return to give You thanks that we can join Diane in prayer for the desire of her heart ... that the final days of her beloved Dad will be peaceful and free from pain. Look with mercy upon him, O Lord ... one who has served his family and his country so very well. Fill this time with warm memories and grateful hearts and family and friends who will hold them close, for the tears will fall and the hearts will break, but You are Comfort and Grace and Mercy. Walk with them, sweet Jesus, and lead them through this time of grief into the joy of life eternal. In the Name of Jesus, I pray, Amen ...