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Terminally ill child dies in Santa's arms
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| December 12, 2016
| Fox News
Posted on 12/12/2016 9:05:41 AM PST by nickedknack
A 60-year-old Tennessee man who spends time volunteering as Santa Claus at a local hospital granted a 5-year-old terminally ill boy his final wish this holiday season, and held him as he died in his arms.
“I spent four years in the Army with the 75th Rangers, and I’ve seen my share of [stuff],” Eric Schmitt-Matzen told USA Today. “But I ran by the nurses’ station bawling my head off. I know nurses and doctors see things like that every day, but I don’t know how they can take it.”
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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 75thranger; god; mercy; ranger; santa; veterans
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Please read the whole article. The story resonates for me. My father passed away on a Christmas Eve after a long struggle, and I wasn't there at his bedside.
To: nickedknack
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posted on
12/12/2016 9:07:55 AM PST
by
MeganC
(Hate crime: The heinous act of disagreeing with a liberal.)
To: nickedknack
Darned blurry font ... God Bless Eric Schmitt-Matzen and Santa’s No. 1 elf.
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posted on
12/12/2016 9:08:58 AM PST
by
NonValueAdded
(#DeplorableMe #BitterClinger #HillNO! #MyPresident #MAGA)
To: nickedknack
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posted on
12/12/2016 9:09:24 AM PST
by
dadfly
To: nickedknack
Somebody start cutting up onions in here? oh man...
To: nickedknack
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posted on
12/12/2016 9:09:46 AM PST
by
MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
(Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
To: MeganC
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posted on
12/12/2016 9:10:40 AM PST
by
pgkdan
(The Silent Majority Stands With TRUMP!)
To: nickedknack
I’m sorry, that must have been terrible difficult
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posted on
12/12/2016 9:11:18 AM PST
by
Revelation 911
(clean up is a breeze)
To: nickedknack
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posted on
12/12/2016 9:11:32 AM PST
by
a real Sheila
(BEST. ELECTION. EVER!!!)
To: nickedknack
That’s the real santa you can tell your kids to believe in
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posted on
12/12/2016 9:14:04 AM PST
by
ari-freedom
(Chicken Little Concerned for Trump people are almost as annoying as NeverTrumpers!)
To: nickedknack
There’s a link in the Fox News article to another in USA Today. That’s a real beard & mustache Santa sports. He keeps it groomed & bleached white for his yearly role visiting sick children.
To: nickedknack
I haven't even read opened up the article and my eyes are tearing up. How heartbreaking and touching, all at the same time...
"God bless us all, every one..."
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posted on
12/12/2016 9:19:39 AM PST
by
DJ Frisat
(Hey, what happened to my clever tag line?!)
To: nickedknack
“’They say I’m going to die,’ he told me. ‘How can I tell when I get to where I’m going?’ I said, ‘Can you do me a big favor?’ He said ‘Sure!’ 'When you get there, you tell them you’re Santa’s No. 1 elf and I know they’ll let you in.’ He said, ‘They will?’ I said, ‘Sure.’”
“He kind of sat up, and gave me a big hug and asked one more question: ‘Santa can you help me?’ I wrapped my arms around him. Before I could say anything, he died right there. I let him stay, just kept hugging and holding on to him,”
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posted on
12/12/2016 9:19:42 AM PST
by
exit82
(Making America Great Again begins with........me.)
To: nickedknack
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posted on
12/12/2016 9:20:32 AM PST
by
smokingfrog
( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
To: nickedknack
I am a Hospice Nurse.....
It is for these Patients that we do what we do..... and we cry often.
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posted on
12/12/2016 9:22:09 AM PST
by
clee1
(We use 43 muscles to frown, 17 to smile, and 2 to pull a trigger. I'm lazy and I'm tired of smiling.)
To: nickedknack
I think Santa will meet his elf again someday when he needs help
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posted on
12/12/2016 9:22:51 AM PST
by
silverleaf
(Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
To: nickedknack
OMG...
Bless you, Santa....you weren’t the only one crying...
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posted on
12/12/2016 9:23:21 AM PST
by
Adder
(Mr. Franklin: We are trying to get the Republic back!)
To: Revelation 911
Yes, it was, and frankly still is. I take some comfort in knowing the he went immediately to be with the Lord in Heaven, with his wife & my mother following him to Paradise seven months later. I’ve reasoned that as God was giving us the Christ Child, He took my father, and that was a fair deal.
To: nickedknack
When you know you have to come back tomorrow and take it again tomorrow you have no choice but to learn how to “take it”.
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posted on
12/12/2016 9:29:05 AM PST
by
wastoute
(Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
To: nickedknack
Thank you for sharing this story, we never get this kind of story locally.
“And Jesus opened His arms and said “Welcome home my son”.
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posted on
12/12/2016 9:29:27 AM PST
by
ASOC
(Have *you* visited the World of the Chernyi?)
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