FW: Senior Wish Finalist Announced, Honor Your Living Legend Update

This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0213_01D04151.854B37C0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_001_0214_01D04151.854B37C0" ------=_NextPart_001_0214_01D04151.854B37C0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable FYI.   HCA_Logo_English_TM_4C_REV Tim Thomas Home Care Assistance (Montréal) Inc. 4464 Ste. Catherine Ouest Westmount, Québec H3Z 1R7 Tel: 514 907 5065 - Fax: 514 907 5067   tthomas@homecareassistance.com   = www.homecareassistancemontreal.ca www.facebook.com/hcamontreal www.twitter.com/hcamontreal       From: HCA News and Updates [mailto:franchise@homecareassistance.com]  Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2015 7:02 PM To: undisclosed-recipients: Subject: Senior Wish Finalist Announced, Honor Your Living Legend Update   Everyone,   After months of anticipation, we are excited to announce the finalist of = our Senior Wish campaign in partnership with Wish of a Lifetime! We will = be granting the wish of Robert “Bob” M., 85, a resilient = Korean War Veteran with strong emotional ties to his time in the Navy. = Read more about Bob and his wish of a lifetime below:   From the fall of 1952 to the fall of 1954, Bob served as a Hospital = Corpsman on the USS Midway, which was the largest ship in the world at = that time. Now, sixty years later, Bob wishes to once again step foot on = the ship that played such an important role in his life and paved the = way for new heights in naval aviation. Bob’s fervent personality and strong work ethic developed at a = young age as a railroad worker and a farmer. At age fifteen, he spent a = summer living and working on the Wabash Railroad. Steel was scarce since = most of it was going towards the war effort, so Bob and his train crew = were forced to weld and repair damaged tracks rather than replace them. = Before joining the Navy, Bob also worked on his grandfather’s = farm, mowing hay, husking corn and milking cows.    At age 21, in the midst of the Korean War, Bob volunteered for the Navy, = and went through boot camp and medical training at Great Lakes Naval = Station in Illinois. After completing subsequent assignments at Naval = stations in Rhode Island and Massachusetts, Bob boarded the USS Midway = Aircraft Carrier in Norfolk, Virginia. As a Hospital Corpsman, he worked = in the 50-bed hospital on the boat, caring for sick and wounded Navy = men. Bob now has a USS Midway model on his desk to commemorate this = significant time in history, of which he was proud to be a part.     Over the course of his life, Bob overcame the toughest of challenges = with remarkable perseverance. As a Korean War Veteran, a = recently-retired small business owner and a family man, Bob is a truly = inspiring American. The last time he saw the USS Midway was when he was = honorably discharged in October of 1954, and when asked what it would be = like to see it