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Archie

The man in the picture above is my brother in law, Archie Slater. He was Ford's sister's husband. He is now deceased.

Archie was a firefighter years ago until he got an allergy problem and lost his sense of smell. That finished his firefighting career. With no sense of smell he was unable to continue in that line of work.

He retired and he and his wife, June, moved to Las Vegas, Once there he got a job at Sunrise Hospital and I am not sure of his title but it was in the emergency room. In the emergency room there were many times that people needed cleaned up after mishaps. Archie, with no sense of smell, offered to do many of those jobs. I am sure many people appreciated that because of the unpleasantness and bad smells associated with that kind of work.

I often thought how nice it was that he did that work for other people. He could not smell anything so it was not as unpleasant for him as it would have been for someone with a sense of smell--still not fun but not quite as bad.

He had to have polyps removed every so often from his nose because of his problem. Actually, his allergies led to heart problems and he died several years ago. I still think he had a honorable attitude toward people and what he was willing to do for others!

posted by kyra lafain @ 12/09/2009 12:30:00 PM