Let's Just Say - Both Audio and Text

Patriotism sometimes comes with great risk, and too often ends with great sacrifice --- A friend of ours was asked - by some reporter - how he viewed the war his only son had gone to fight in…and had died. His face went limp…his breathing paused…his eyes welled up with tears, and all who heard the answer stood transfixed as he replied. “Me and all my fam’ly, sir, are desperate to believe the cause - for which he died - was worth his life…and though we’ve tried, Most of us are struggling to accept the reason why…though some, I know, have found a bit of solace in our pride. We feel the war that took his life gives cause for some debate - for some have surely stretched the truth, and some have actually lied. But let’s just say the truth was told, so we can thereby temper weakened hearts - and calm suspicions festering deep inside. And, let’s just say - with time - the pain I feel from our son’s absence fin’ly does subside into a hell I can abide… And I have reached a void where numbness, every now and then, kindly - out of deference to the million tears I’ve cried - Lets me sleep one night without a nightmare… even then… as now… I curse - with all my heart - the day that he complied.