This is just sad...

[Natebishop3]

http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/08/09/chinook.son.ireport/index.html?hpt=hp_c1

In his pajamas, Braydon stood in front of his mother and uncle.

"I said, 'Braydon, do you know much your dad loves you? Do you know how proud of you he is?"

Before she could say anything more, the boy wilted in her arms, sobbing.

"I said, 'I'm sorry ... your ... dad died."

The mother and son held each other and cried. An hour, maybe, went by. At one point Braydon got off the couch and ambled over to a Shih Tzu puppy, Lucy, that his mother bought him when his father got deployed.

 

[Rodolfo]

Every time I see this kind of thing I get so fucking pissed that we are still over there. Families losing fathers for an unwinnable war.

 

[SlyPokerDog]

Every time I see this kind of thing I get so fucking pissed that we are still over there. Families losing fathers for an unwinnable war.

War?!? I thought we were Nation Building.

 

[The_Lillard_King]

http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/08/09/chinook.son.ireport/index.html?hpt=hp_c1

Ugh . . . I get chills reading that.

Life is so unfair . . .

 

[BLAZER PROPHET]

It puts a lot of things into perspective.

 

[Natebishop3]

Ugh . . . I get chills reading that.

Life is so unfair . . .

We glorify war, but there's nothing glorious about that boy growing up without a dad.

 

[BLAZER PROPHET]

We glorify war, but there's nothing glorious about that boy growing up without a dad.

Or a mother.

 

[Natebishop3]

Or a mother.

Well, fortunately for him, I think he now has two mothers who care very much for him. Hopefully his step-mom stays in his life because he's going to need all the love and support he can get.