Vietnam Veteran Gets His Dying Wish: To Go Fishing One Last Time

I love fishing. I even caught a fish, out of a pond, in Vietnam, while waiting to lift off for an Air Assault. It was a dark brown ugly fish with big teeth. I threw the entire fishing rig away instead of trying to get that fish off. I was supposed to go fishing with my PaPa, in Missouri, after I got back, but he died six months before I came back home. I caught my first black Bass fishing with a fly rod my PaPa taught me how to use. This dying Vietnam Veteran's last wish, is something I would proably do, if I could.

The Dublin, Georgia VA hospice care unit worked hard to make the veteran’s final days all they could be.
Connie Willhite had two requests as he entered hospice care: baptism and fishing.

The Soperton resident, who served in the Navy during the Vietnam War, told the staff at the Hospice Care Unit at Dublin’s Carl Vinson VA Medical Center that those two things were important to him during his last days.