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

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

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

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

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

And yet another mother asked George 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 Jerusalem"??

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

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