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To: Ramius

You're probably right, but it's still so hard. Why did the Qualls son get a chance to have a family? It's hard to make sense of these things. It's just so tough.


22 posted on 11/19/2004 8:49:00 PM PST by faithincowboys
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To: faithincowboys

I don't know if there is a way to express to a parent faced with such a catastrophe... any way to express a perspective that they could possibly see over the blackness. I don't know that there is any point to try.

Presenting the flag "on behalf of a grateful nation" is the custom, but I doubt that any parent at graveside ever really even hears those words. Their world is collapsing in on them at that moment.

It is only from the distant view of history that justification ever makes any sense. Was D-Day worth it? Of course it was. Was it worthwhile to a recipient of the horrid telegram that day? There is nothing to be gained by asking.

I am personally distant from these losses so far. But I seek out these stories and these people because I need to know the pain of it. I support this effort, and I know there is a horrible cost, and it is precisely because I think we are doing right that I must at least see the whole cost of it.


36 posted on 11/19/2004 9:09:45 PM PST by Ramius (Time? What time do you think we have?)
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