Touching story in our paper today...A son lost in another trumped up War

[OneTwentyoNine]

http://www.kansas.com/mld/kansas/news/local/7902332.htm



She is 78 now, part of a dwindling generation of parents who lost sons in Vietnam.To know what she has endured is to know what other families might face.

She sees parallels between the two wars. "To me, it's almost like Vietnam all over again because we shouldn't have been in Vietnam, and we shouldn't be in Iraq."

In both cases, as she views it, Americans sending children to war were "told a big story, but it wasn't true."

[BeyondGeography]

1. Everyone should read this

Living history; rare that you see such a thoughtful piece in a newspaper.

Thanks for posting this.