Father’s Day Reflections on a Son Lost: by Michael Berg

Published on Friday, June 16, 2006 by CommonDreams.org
Father’s Day Reflections on a Son Lost
by Michael Berg

Of all of the holidays a grieving father can be confronted with after the death of his child, Fathers Day is for me the most difficult.

My son Nick died in Iraq on May 7, 2004. He is buried next to my father, who had died just a year and a half before. That is not the way it’s supposed to be.

I’m supposed to go somewhere between my father and my son in the graveyard. Nearby are my proud immigrant grandparents, who died first. That is the way it is supposed to be.

There is a lot else going on that is not the way it is supposed to be. Our leaders are not supposed to lie to us. Yet because George Bush and company told us to beware of weapons of mass destruction and so-called Iraqi involvement in 9/11, my son and the loved ones of 150,000 other grieving souls on both sides lost their lives.

Though I doubted our president’s words, I did too little too late.

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http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0616-25.htm

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I will not vote for or support any candidate for Congress or President who does not make a speedy end to the war in Iraq, and preventing any future war of aggression, a public position in his or her campaign.



People it is quite simple, we can not simply remain quiet, it's your choice.

combine that with this

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x1443692#1443735

of your son... how the hell did it get to the bottom of page 1 with so few comments?

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They were so appalled by the idea that Mr. Berg did not want more blood spilled in retribution for his son's death. Everyone treated him like such a kook for saying something as simple as the death or Zarquawi wouldn't bring his son back. They didn't know what to do with someone who wouldn't play into their blood lust narrative.