A nurse took the tired, anxious serviceman to the bedside.
"Your son is here," she said to the old man.
She had to repeat the words several times before the patients eyes opened.
Heavily sedated because of the
pain of his heart attack, he dimly saw the young uniformed ARMY
OFFICER standing outside the oxygen tent. He reached out his hand.
The OFFICER wrapped his toughened fingers around the old man's limp
ones, squeezing a message of love and encouragement.