[M.D. Holloway]

With him now - he just 'inhaled' his roast beef sandwich! Ol boy can throw da groceries! He's sorta sleeping now. His pacemaker likes to be about the size of a cig pack and as thick as a 9 volt battery. Supposed to hold a charge for 5 to 8 years. It is sub-dural. They didn't crack his chest but they did make an incision about an inch and a half into his left pect. He will be sore for a while.

He loves telling the various nurses that the last time he was in a hospital was in France during the big one, after the Battle of the Buldge, caught shrapnel in his chest and legs and had frostbit toes and how being a BAR man gave you $6 extra bucks a month which is why he did it but regreted it because he couldn't be as mobile in the dead of winter and those Germans were great at using the motors which is how he got blown up along with two other guys and how the Army issued them summer socks for winter battle and that he didn't like it but he did take the nice wool socks off of a German solder he had to kill and that he didn't want to take his money or anything like other guys would but they had nice wool socks and what the heck, he didn't need them any more!

Oh the stories were flowing!

Now he is sleeping.