"Simply Put"

[Anonymous]

Cindy Sheehan asked President Bush, "Why did my son have to die in Iraq?"

Another mother asked President Kennedy, "Why did my son have to die in Vietnam?"

Another mother asked President Truman, "Why did my son have to die in Korea?"

Another mother asked President Roosevelt, "Why did my son have to die at Iwo Jima?"

Another mother asked President Wilson, "Why did my son have to die on a battlefield in France?"

Yet another mother asked President Lincoln, "Why did my son have to die on the battlefield at Gettysburg?"

And another mother asked President G. Washington, "Why did my son have to die near Valley Forge?"

Then long, long ago, a mother asked ..."Heavenly Father, why did my son have to die on a cross outside of Jerusalem?"

The answers to all of these questions are similar - so that others may live and dwell in peace, happiness, and freedom.

No, I didn't write this one .... it was emailed to me with no author, but I thought the magnitude and the simplicity of it was awesome.

 

[cowboy]

Thanks for sharing that B.F.
It kinda give you pause to consider things a little more.

Perhaps when that little old lady pulls out in traffic, and slows down your progress.

I try to cut them a little slack.

You never can tell. She may have laid a huge sacrafice on the alter of freedom. A son or a husband.

That goes for little old men as well.

 

[Anonymous]

Cowboy, in the movie "Saving Pvt. Ryan" the story is told of a letter that Lincoln wrote to a woman who had lost three sons to just such an alter.

I am incapable of imagining that kind of sacrifice.

BF

 

[Cajun]

I am sure there are some members here that know all too well what the feeling is in losing someone to war ( conflicks ), be it a son, a dad, a sister, a Brother, or a buddy. Its something that just comes with the freedom and everything we have in this great country. I could go on and on but won't. That is a heart felt writing you posted and very true. So remember the ones that have already given so much and the ones that are still giving. Thanx

 

[tf]

Bf,

That gives us all something to think about and puts things in perspective. Thanks for sharing.

It gives me flashbacks of the time we were lucky enough to visit the Arlington Cemetery (Where Valor Sleeps) in Washington, DC. It is the most reverent of places and one of the humblest experiences to set foot upon these hallowest of grounds.

Some of the inscriptions still send shivers throughout my body as I think of them. One inscription reads, “All Gave Some, and Some Gave All�. Another reads, “Tell Them of Us and Say, for Their Tomorrows We Gave Our Today.� Still another reads, “It is better to have lived one day as a lion than one thousand days as a sheep�.

We had a Veteran’s Day Assembly at school once upon a time. The speaker, the mayor of our town, who was a Veteran described a picture hanging on his wall. It was a picture of two men carrying a wounded soldier from the battle field risking their lives for their fellow man and country in the heat of the battle. He desciribed the sweat pouring from their faces and their look of determination as they laboriously dragged their comrade from harm’s way and to safety. The caption underneath the picture read, “What have you done for your country today?�

Have a Good Day,
tom