Friends Come, and Go....

So yesterday we had a "reunion" at the DB1 household in Melrose, MA. Wasn't anything big, we had heard that LTD was bringing our "freedom awards" and we would have a visitor. The visitor was supposed to be a soldier who deployed with us but then moved away the day we came back to the USA. So LTD showed up with his wife and kids, and nothing else. No awards, no visitor..... oh yea, and he was almost 2 hours late. (Cant spell Late without LT I guess eh?) Anyways, we picked on him about not being prepared, or having anything he told us about, pretty much meant this reunion meeting was pointless. About an hour into our little get-together LTD stood up and said he had an announcement... "The reason our visitor isn't coming is because he is sick. He doesn't have the power to be able to drive up here and visit. He is really really sick and can barely sit. He has cancer..." WHAT? WTF? When did this happen? DB1 and I were just talking before the LTD's speech and we made a joke saying the only reason our visitor wasn't here was probably cause he was dead from a disease.... karma sucks. anyways..LTD continued, " The cancer is in his Pancreas and just moved into his colon, and is spreading rapidly throughout his lower vital organs. He already had a dose of chemotherapy at Walter Reed but he will need alot more." I don't know what the hell happened while I was gone in DC, but before I left, I was in contact with his unit, sending all of his personnel files and medical stuff to Texas because he was about ready to deploy again in June. So messed up...