K.D. Lightner
Call Me a Cab
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Wow, I just realized that there will be three more nights of this series, lots to cover, I imagine, in the very last year of the war.
Weston, I feel the same way; I find it all so sad, even though it was truly a necessary war if any war ever was. I think a turning point for me was last year when I read the excellent book Flags of our Fathers, written by the son of one of the six men who raised the flag on Iwo Jima.
When I realized how young those guys were, how many were killed and wounded, the ways in which they were killed, it just got to me. When I read that many of those young fellows who lay dying on the beach cried out for their mothers, I thought, oh the pity.
My mother, who lived through that time, feels it, too. She said she didn't realize how young they all were -- boys, really -- but she was young, too.
karol
Weston, I feel the same way; I find it all so sad, even though it was truly a necessary war if any war ever was. I think a turning point for me was last year when I read the excellent book Flags of our Fathers, written by the son of one of the six men who raised the flag on Iwo Jima.
When I realized how young those guys were, how many were killed and wounded, the ways in which they were killed, it just got to me. When I read that many of those young fellows who lay dying on the beach cried out for their mothers, I thought, oh the pity.
My mother, who lived through that time, feels it, too. She said she didn't realize how young they all were -- boys, really -- but she was young, too.
karol