'I don't forget': Memories of battles past stay forever with oldest veterans - U.S. News
From NBC News.com
Toney Atkins comments: This was true of my late father, who served as a sniper in the U.S. Army during World War II. He had nightmares, when he could sleep, that would have him jerk awake, screaming. He didn't talk about the war, at least with me, but he did tell a lady friend, who told me later, that he carried a heavy load of guilt, and he feared the afterlife. He started going to church about a year before he died in 2005, and that seemed to bring him some comfort. I'll never forget walking into his hospice room a few days before his passing. He was asleep, but he had the most beautiful smile on his face -- one that I had never seen before in my lifetime. On this Memorial Day, I like to think that he was already seeing beyond death -- seeing his loved ones who had passed on and perhaps his buddies who did not return from the war. He had lived in hell, but I believe he died in peace.
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