We placed a few flags around the parking lot of the nursing center then staged a mile up the road to ride in to the center as a group. We had to wait a few extra minutes as Mr. Rainey  had been taken to the hospital earlier this afternoon. But he was given some blood plasma and an IV and returned to the center. 
 When we pulled in the staff had him sitting in a wheel chair where he could see us and he was grinning from ear to ear. 
 This mission was a great success in that we made a dying veteran's last days better and made all of us better for it as well. 
 On a sadder note, Mr. Rainey will be moved to Hospice tomorrow. 