This link is a CNN story about the child of the Chinook pilot killed in the recent crash in Afghanistan.
This link is to the IReport young Braydon posted to CNN.
I wanted to share this. Don’t really have anything else to say. I seem to have something in my eye. Both eyes.
Kinda surprised this got 100 views and no replies…
Maybe there isn’t anything to say.
Myself, I’m afraid to click the links.
As for as I know, the links are work safe. They go to CNN. The article talks about how the little boy learned of his father’s death, and how he’s coping with it. His parents divorced, but remained amiable. The father remarried, and it was the new wife that got the official word from the Army. She then called the boy’s mother, who had to tell the child.
I have something in my eye, and can’t type much.
Thanks for posting the links. I don’t have anything else to say.
What do you want? This story, or something like it, has been repeated literally thousands of times since we sent troops into Afghanistan and Iraq.
Thank you for revealing the previously undisclosed fact that the children of soldiers sometimes lose their parents in war. Some of us were pointing out exactly that back in March 2003.
Yeah, I have to say that my reaction to this is, because I’m a father, terrible sadness, but also “What the fuck did you think was going to happen?!” directed at the flag-waving uber-Merkins who supported us going to war in the first place, and who now have an oh-so-patriotic “Support Our Troops” tear in their eye over the lamb they sent off to be killed.
Been in that situation myself. damn