Help with e-mail.

[silverweb]

I received this from an old friend yesterday and know it's often futile to reply to these e-mails. However, I can't let this one go. It is so historically inaccurate, so simplistic, so piously nationalistic and glurgilistically (new word!) naive that it demands a response.

Simply Put

Cindy Sheehan asked President Bush,
"Why did my son have to die in Iraq?"

Another mother asked President Kennedy,
"Why did my son have to die in VietNam?"

Another mother asked President Truman,
"Why did my son have to die in Korea?

Another mother asked President F.D. Roosevelt,
"Why did my son have to die at Iwo Jima?"

Another mother asked President W. Wilson,
"Why did my son have to die on the battlefield of France?"

Yet another mother asked President Lincoln,
"Why did my son have to die at Gettysburg?"

And yet another mother asked President G.Washington,
"Why did my son have to die near Valley Forge?"

Then long, long ago, a mother asked,
"Heavenly Father, why did my Son have to die on a cross outside of Jerusalem?"

The answers to all these are similar --
That others may have life and dwell in peace, happiness, and freedom.

No, I didn't write this one... it was e-mailed to me with no author; and I thought the magnitude and the simplicity were awesome.

My problem? Today's a busy one and probably tomorrow, too, so I don't have time to dig into this the way I'd like to, showing that most of our wars had absolutely nothing to do with the stated purpose from the e-mail, "...that others may have life and dwell in peace, happiness, and freedom."

So... who wants to pull together the facts for me that will make a good reponse to this e-mail? I'm just itching to hit that reply-to-all button!

Thanks in advance, DUers! I'd have long since been a basket case without you guys. :loveya:

Gotta run for now....