Words of US troops and their families.

[Swede]

A Mother's Grief: Not a day goes by that I don't think of you. I never knew that love could hurt so much. There are so many things that spark a memory of you-a song, a boy in a baseball cap and baggy pants, a skateboarder. I wish I could spend another summer at the cabin with you. I know that when you were there you were in heaven. When I think of you now I know that you are on the lake fishing with your friends and I know that someday I can join you. Until then little man I love you and I hold you close to my heart. Love, Mom
- DeEtte Wood, writing a final letter to her son, Nathan, a U.S. Marine KIA .


This is a from a soon to be released book and PBS miniseries.

http://www.warletters.com/press/index.html

[acmavm]

1. These people put into words a pain that those thugs in the bush**

administration cannot and will not ever feel. Their kids will never go to war. They'll see to that. Just like they never went to war.

I don't think I could ever read that book.

[Viva_La_Revolution]

2. I call my oldest "Bud"

"buddy" when he was little.

He cuts a fine figure in his Dress blues, my boy does.

Why is it, in my mind, he's still running around in the backyard on a hot day wearing nothing but a diaper?

Because DeEtte Wood could be me.