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Orwellian_Ghost Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-22-09 06:41 AM
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"Hello Mum, This Is Going to Be Hard for You to Read..."- Letters from a Dead Soldier in Afghanistan
Rifleman Cyrus Thatcher's letters reveal the excitement of a teenager who dreamed of war, and his growing realization he may not make it home.

You are both amazing men and will continue to be throughout your lives you both deserve to be happy and fofill all of your dreams.

Dad – my idol, my friend, my best friend, my teacher, my coach, everything I ever succeeded in my life I owe to you and maybe a little bit of me! You are a great man and the perfect role model and the past two years of being in the army I noticed that and me and you have been on the best level we have ever been. I thank you for nothing because I no all you have given to me is not there to be thanked for its there because you did it cause you love me and that is my most proudest thing I could ever say.

Mum, where do I start with you!! For a start your perfect, your smell, your hugs, the way your life was dedicated to us boys and especially the way you cared each and every step us boys took. I love you, you were the reason I made it as far as I did you were the reason I was loved more than any child I no and that made me feel special.

Your all such great individuals and I hope somehow this letter will help you get through this shit time!! Just remember do NOT mourn my death as hard as this will seem, celebrate a great life that has had its ups and downs. I love you all more than you would ever no and in your own individual ways helped me get through it all. I wish you all the best with your dreams.

Remember chin up head down. With love Cyrus xxxx

http://www.alternet.org/world/141449/%22hello_mum%2C_this_is_going_to_be_hard_for_you_to_read...%22_--_letters_from_a_dead_soldier_in_afghanistan/?page=3
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Chemisse Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-22-09 08:35 AM
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1. That is so very sad.
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blindpig Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-22-09 09:13 AM
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2. k&r n/t
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maryf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-22-09 11:11 AM
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3. K&R nt
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gratuitous Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-22-09 11:19 AM
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4. Sad indeed
Multiplied by about a million or so for every individual sent to an early grave by the Bush Doctrine, and sadness gives way to righteous anger about such waste for the enrichment of a few corrupt individuals.
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crickets Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-22-09 12:51 PM
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5. ... K&R
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Orwellian_Ghost Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-22-09 07:28 PM
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6. Bump
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deaniac21 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-22-09 07:44 PM
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7. I thought we were getting out of Iraq and Afganistan.
Edited on Wed Jul-22-09 07:45 PM by deaniac21
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Forkboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-22-09 07:48 PM
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8. A sad and angry recommend.
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