[ValerieUSA]

He died in a convelescent center recovering from a broken shoulder suffered in a drunken fall. Though he was only 66, he was so decimated by alcoholism that his 90 yr old roommate at the center nicknamed him Methuselah. A big healthy Norwegian, he destroyed himself during his career at the Olympia Brewery after the war.

[westmex]

Well, Val I've said a number of times it would have been better if a lot of us had died young during the wars....Just my opinion....

.....Westy......

[westmex]

Val, we don't know the burden Dewey might have picked up during the war. That generation didn't go whining to the shrinks, they took care of it themselves as best they could. So don't condemn him till you have walked in his shoes......

.....Westy.....