Posted on 02/01/2021 7:46:22 AM PST by SJackson
'Captain Tom' has been treated for pneumonia over the past few weeks and tested positive last week
Tom Moore, the 100-year-old British World War II veteran who captivated the nation by raising more than $40 million toward COVID-19 relief last year, was admitted to the hospital on Sunday with the virus.
Hannah Ingram-Moore announced in a statement that her father, known as "Captain Tom," was taken to Bedford Hospital in the U.K. after he was having trouble breathing. She said he has been treated for pneumonia over the past few weeks and tested positive for COVID-19 last week.
"The medical care he has received in the last few weeks has been remarkable and we know that the wonderful staff at Bedford Hospital will do all that they can to make him comfortable and hopefully return home as soon as possible," according to her statement on Twitter.
Ingram-Moore said her father was being treated in a ward, not in the intensive care unit.
The Army veteran, who uses a walker, set out to raise about $1,200 for those working on the front lines of the coronavirus crisis by walking laps around an 82-foot loop in his Bedfordshire garden during the early stages of the pandemic last April.
He eventually raised more than $40 million for the country's health service -- and in the process became a national hero.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who had called Moore "a beacon of light through the fog of coronavirus," was among those to wish him a speedy recovery.
"My thoughts are very much with @CaptainTomMoore and his family," Johnson wrote on Twitter. "You’ve inspired the whole nation, and I know we are all wishing you a full recovery."
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Some call him “Tom”.
I hope he speedily recovers and enjoys good health from here on out.
The fact that Captain Tom is being treated in a Ward, and not in the Intensive Care Unit is encouraging. Better that he stays there until the lungs clear and the worst symptoms subside. Probably not permitted any visitors.
He is a beloved public figure in England.
$40 million for the country’s health service
It doesn’t sound like this is the same person who posts about cruises on FR as “Captain Tom’.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3930322/posts
I give you x currency, you give me y goods in return. See?
Regards,
Capt Tom is our Free Republic link to the real state of our Northeastern Fisheries and all shark related things...:)
So he is not the same guy. But I like this guy, Capt. Tom Moore.
For a minute before I read the article, I thought they might be talking about Jim Radford, the British Leftist guy closely associated with the Marxist Veterans For Peace guy who was a media darling because of a song he wrote (The Shores of Normandy) but thankfully, not that guy.
People fawned all over him (even here on Free Republic) and maybe, to give him the benefit of the doubt, he might just be a tool of the Left with his peace sign buttons, Veterans For Peace buttons and they just forgot to give him a clenched fist with a rose button, but I have had enough firsthand exposure to them to abhor those organizations and all who associate with them. (Thankfully, Capt. Moore doesn’t seem to be one of them) I doubt it is beyond those Leftist organizations to take advantage of an old guy like Radford, but I don’t think he is just that. I got the impression he had been a Leftist activist in that Marxist organization for decades.
He was actually promoted to honorary Colonel last year.
rlmorel wrote: “So he is not the same guy. But I like this guy, Capt. Tom Moore.”
My wife believes the picture of him as a young man reminds her of pictures of my at his age.
It isn't me. I am doing just fine. -Tom
Capt. Tom wrote: “It isn’t me. I am doing just fine. -Tom”
I knew it wasn’t when I saw he was a British Citizen. I seemed to remember you lived in the northeast. My point was to ensure that others knew that as well.
Glad to hear you’re doing well.
When he was knighted he was also made an honorary Colonel
David Bowie sang Major Tom into space back in '69.
Like so many of us...once young...we all had a similarity, did we not?
Yes. Always that young face when you know everything there is to know, your life is in front of you, and the world is your oyster.
I’ve had my oyster, and it had pearls in it...:)
News today that he has died.
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