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John William Tuohy lives in Washington DC

Cancer

My brother Danny allowed me take these photos of his last months on earth at the Bethesda Naval Hospital. I told him I would never show them to anyone and probably destroy them and he said “No, show them. If it keeps one kid from smoking, it’s worth it”

Danny served 27 years in the military before succumbing to throat cancer in October of 2015. He smoked two packs of cigarettes a day for 45 of his 58 years.  

He put up a noble fight, I must say, no small thing considering the toll cancer takes on those that it steals and he fought back by never losing his sense of humor. When cancer reduced him to less than a hundred pounds. I came into his room one day and he was reading the newspaper want ads.

“I’m considering selling grave sites” he said “or maybe Jenny Craig modeling, who ever makes the best offer"

Maybe because he came from a time and place where a man took his pain and dealt with it or maybe because or was just one of the last true tough guys, I never heard him complain about having cancer or about what a bad break it was or ask “Why me?”

As the months went by and the pain increased and things became worse and time ran out he grew closer to his faith and wondered aloud if God would hold it against him that he only came back to the church when he was in trouble. I told him God was lucky that he came back at all. I wish I had said something better than that but it made him feel better and I think God understand a Celts bravado.


  

















































Here’s the secret to success as far as I can tell.



Develop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things, literature, music and then stay close to anything that makes you glad you are alive. Live your passions by keeping what is in your heart close to what is in your head.


Brain dead

The juvenile sea squirt wanders through the sea searching for a suitable rock or hunk of coral to cling to and make its home for life. For this task, it has a rudimentary nervous system. When it finds its spot and takes root, it doesn't need its brain anymore, so it eats it. It's rather like getting tenure. -Daniel Dennett, philosopher, writer, and professor. 


Professor Ciccariello-Maher is a political science professor at Drexel University. An avid supporter of deceased Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez, Ciccariello-Maher tweeted on Christmas Day 2016 that he wanted "white genocide" for Christmas, and later tweeted, "To clarify: when the whites were massacre [sic] during the Haitian revolution, that was a good thing indeed."


Source: http://www.philly.com/philly/news/Drexel-officials-Professor-George-Ciccariello-Mahers-White-Genocide-tweet-was-utterly-reprehensible.html