# The Price of War.... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 9, 2011, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-price-of-war/592123 "2011-08-09T20:44:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2011, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-price-of-war/592123/1 "2011-08-09T20:44:33Z")
[This link](http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/08/09/chinook.son.ireport/index.html?hpt=hp_bn1) is a CNN story about the child of the Chinook pilot killed in the recent crash in Afghanistan. [This link](http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-648315) 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. ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2011, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-price-of-war/592123/2 "2011-08-10T18:19:01Z")
Kinda surprised this got 100 views and no replies… ---
**Author:** ![NinetyWt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/cc9497/32.png) [@NinetyWt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NinetyWt)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2011, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-price-of-war/592123/3 "2011-08-10T18:30:35Z")
Maybe there isn’t anything to say. Myself, I’m afraid to click the links. ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2011, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-price-of-war/592123/4 "2011-08-10T20:07:22Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Rick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9f8e36/32.png) [@Rick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2011, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-price-of-war/592123/5 "2011-08-11T04:45:17Z")
> [@Oakminster](#): > > Kinda surprised this got 100 views and no replies… I have something in my eye, and can’t type much. ---
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2011, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-price-of-war/592123/6 "2011-08-11T14:11:28Z")
Thanks for posting the links. I don’t have anything else to say. ---
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2011, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-price-of-war/592123/7 "2011-08-11T16:44:53Z")
> [@Oakminster](#): > > Kinda surprised this got 100 views and no replies… 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. ---
**Author:** ![Ogre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ecb155/32.png) [@Ogre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ogre)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2011, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-price-of-war/592123/8 "2011-08-11T17:31:03Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![DorkVader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/73ab20/32.png) [@DorkVader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DorkVader)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2011, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-price-of-war/592123/9 "2011-08-12T05:21:18Z")
Been in that situation myself. damn