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[00:-1.00]The story began on a downtown Brooklyn street corner.
[00:-2.00]An elderly man had collapsed while crossing the street,
[00:-3.00]and an ambulance rushed him to Kings County Hospital.
[00:-4.00]There, when he came to now and again,
[00:-5.00]the man repeatedly called for his son.
[00:-6.00]From a worn letter located in his pocket,
[00:-7.00]an emergency-room nurse learned that his son was a Marine
[00:-8.00]stationed in North Carolina.
[00:-9.00]Apparently there were no other relatives
[00:10.00]Someone at the hospital called the Red Cross office in Brooklyn,
[00:11.00]and a request for the boy to rush to Brooklyn
[00:12.00]was sent to the Red Cross director of the North Carolina Marine Corps camp.
[00:13.00]Because time was short — the patient was dying
[00:14.00]— the Red Cross man and an officer set out in an army vehicle.
[00:15.00]They found the young man walking through some marshes in a military exercise.
[00:16.00]He was rushed to the airport in time to catch the sole plane that might
[00:17.00]enable him to reach his dying father.
[00:18.00]It was dusk when the young Marine walked into the entrance lobby
[00:19.00]of Kings County Hospital.
[00:20.00]A nurse took the tired, anxious serviceman to the bedside.
[00:21.00]"Your son is here," she said to the old man.
[00:22.00]She had to repeat the words several times
[00:23.00]before the patient's eyes opened.
[00:24.00]The medicine he had been given because of the pain from his heart attack
[00:25.00]made his eyes weak
[00:26.00]and he only dimly saw the young man in Marine Corps uniform
[00:27.00]standing outside the oxygen tent.
[00:28.00]He extended his hand.
[00:29.00]The Marine wrapped his strong fingers around the old man's limp ones
[00:30.00]squeezing a message of love and encouragement.
[00:31.00]The nurse brought a chair, so the Marine could sit by the bed.
[00:32.00]Nights are long in hospitals,
[00:33.00]but all through the night the young Marine sat there
[00:34.00]in the dimly-lit ward,
[00:35.00]holding the old man's hand and offering words of hope and strength.
[00:36.00]Occasionally, the nurse urged the Marine to rest for a while.
[00:37.00]He refused
[00:38.00]Whenever the nurse came into the ward, the Marine was there,
[00:39.00]but he paid no attention to her and the night noises of the hospital
[00:40.00]the banging of an oxygen tank,
[00:41.00]the laughter of the night staff exchanging greetings,
[00:42.00]the cries and moans and breathing of other patients.
[00:43.00]Now and then she heard him say a few gentle words.
[00:44.00]The dying man said nothing,
[00:45.00]only held tightly to his son through most of the night.
[00:46.00]It was nearly dawn when the patient died.
[00:47.00]The Marine placed the lifeless hand he had been holding on the bed,
[00:48.00]and went to inform the nurse.
[00:49.00]While she did what she had to do,
[00:50.00]he smoked a cigarette, his first since he got to the hospital.
[00:51.00]Finally, she returned to the nurse's station, where he was waiting.
[00:52.00]She started to offer words of sympathy,
[00:53.00]but the Marine interrupted her.
[00:54.00]"Who was that man?" he asked
[00:55.00]"He was your father," she answered, startled.
[00:56.00]"No, he wasn't," the Marine replied. "I never saw him before in my life."
[00:57.00]"Why didn't you say something when I took you to him?" the nurse asked.
[00:58.00]"I knew immediately there'd been a mistake,
[00:59.00]but I also knew he needed his son,
[-1:00.00]and his son just wasn't here.
[-1:-1.00]When I realized he was too sick to tell whether or not I was his son,
[-1:-2.00]I guessed he really needed me. So I stayed. "
[-1:-3.00]With that, the Marine turned and exited the hospital.
[-1:-4.00]Two days later a message came in from the North Carolina Marine Corps base
[-1:-5.00]informing the Brooklyn Red Cross
[-1:-6.00]that the real son was on his way to Brooklyn for his father's funeral.
[-1:-7.00]It turned out there had been two Marines with the same name