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The Bar => Sports => Topic started by: Chris on October 15, 2009, 09:19:59 AM
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Rex Plock, 89, of Lincoln, died Sunday — but not before he fulfilled his dying wish: to watch Nebraska defeat Missouri in a televised football game last Thursday.
Plock had fallen gravely ill with pneumonia about two weeks ago, according to family members.
At Lincoln's BryanLGH Medical Center East, he was placed on a respirator and heavily medicated in hopes that his fluid-filled lungs might recover. After six days in an induced coma —the day before the Nebraska-Missouri game — Plock was unhooked from the machines.
By late Wednesday, he had weakened, but by Thursday morning, Plock was chipper, bugging his family about when the football game was going to start.
On Friday, Plock was moved to a hospice bed at Madonna Rehabilitation Hospital, where Kapperman works as a nurse. He died two days later.
http://www.omaha.com/article/20091014/NEWS01/710149904
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Yeah, we can be that way here, in Nebraska.
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Once a Husker fan always a Husker fan.
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A football and basketball player at Fairmont High School, Plock was wounded three times during World War II, including on Utah Beach during the D-Day invasion. But he healed and returned to duty.
An Army master sergeant, Plock farmed near Fairmont after the war and later operated a Dairy Queen in Crete, Neb. He retired around 1980 and moved to Lincoln.
RIP, warrior. :taps:
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RIP, warrior. :taps:
Ditto.