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Sad.
Posted: Wed Feb 17, 2010 11:59 am
by Digit
A friend of ours left here today to travel to the RAF transport base in Oxfordshire to claim the body of his son, killed in Afghanistan.
No parent should have to make such a sad trip.
Roy.
Re: Sad.
Posted: Wed Feb 17, 2010 1:57 pm
by Minimalist
In peace, sons bury their fathers. In war, fathers bury their sons.
Herodotus
Some things never change.
Re: Sad.
Posted: Wed Feb 17, 2010 3:16 pm
by Digit
That is new to me Min, and so very true.
Roy.
Re: Sad.
Posted: Wed Feb 17, 2010 4:52 pm
by Minimalist
Yeah.... damn Greeks thought of everything.