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I'm amazed you could even post a word. You're a fucking trouper, man.

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Rest well and heal up.

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Wishing you a speedy recovery.

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I hope you and Tracy can feel the wave of good wishes, and okay, I’ll just say it, thoughts and prayers, that are coming to you from all points of this tired old globe. If we could all get to Pennsylvania to drop off casseroles, clean litter boxes, and walk Ruby, that’s just what we’d do. As it is, please know that many people value you highly, and wish you good health with all our hearts.

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Take care..... we need your voice and wisdom!

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Yes we do

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Oh man. Lucian. Big hugs.

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Btw, something to consider when you feel better. A bunch of children of 85th ID vets are meeting in Italy in early May to celebrate the German surrender (back when defeating Nazis was considered a goid tbing). Angela Findlay, a Brirish writer and grand daughter of the German General who surrendered to the 337th wil also be there. You should come too. Springtime in the Italian Alps sounds like a great cure for whatever ails you

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Sorry for all the fat thumb typos!

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Hope your symptoms ease up and you feel much better very soon!

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I’m so grateful your smart and loving wife called 911! Get them to test what strain of flu you have, if they didn’t already. Rest and recover, dear Lucian.

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I hope you can find out if it's the flu that's been killing people in China.

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Feel better soon, Lucian.

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LT Sir, You are safe in that hospital, enjoy the food, and know that You are in the care of highly trained Nurses and Doctors. Good Health to You Sir, and nap when You can, hospitals are noisy!!

Alan just South of Boston

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Thank goodness Tracy promptly got you to the hospital! These illnesses are not to be trifled with, Lucian. I send you healing vibes for a quick recovery. You are in good hands, my virtual friend!!

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Hang in there, Cousin Lucian. I'm wishing you the best care and a speedy recovery.

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I just finished 18 days of a very hard case of the flu. It was worse than my week of Covid two years ago when I recovered with the 5-day plan of successive pills. Even so, in the beginning I felt like I had been knocked out by Mike Tyson.

I am 88. But your case is much worse than mine. I wish you a speedy recovery. THERE IS A

REALLY STRONG FLU BUG GOING AROUND NOW, folks. And there is not much the docs can do about it.

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Get better asap and thank the advances in modern medicine to help us geezers not only survive but stay well most of the time. We need your voice to help us survive what's coming. And I love the earlier comment re "remember when defeating Nazis was a good thing". Now our co-president is funding the neo-Nazis in Germany to the dismay of the Germans! Where would he have stood on December 7, 1941? And what he planning for us in the coming year? Time to oppose in advance!

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I'm so sorry. Forget about the column -- just rest!

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