A Letter to the President: "Mr. Bush, You'd Have Liked My Brother"

[Say_What]

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Dante Zappala recently wrote a letter to President Bush: "My brother, Sherwood Baker, died in Iraq last week. I tried to call you and I tried to write to you, but you never responded. I'm writing to you again because I believe had you known him, you would have liked him... And maybe if you knew him, if you knew the other soldiers, you'd have thought differently about sending them.

Sherwood was a foster kid, and he came to our family before I was born. He had limited contact with his biological family. Our parents never let him go. They received him, raised him, and he was their child. He was their son and my brother.

In so many ways, Sherwood represented the country he loved. He was dealt a tough hand and turned it into opportunity. Always struggling between optimism and reality, he seemed to be on a life-long quest to codify a family.

When he became a father at 21, he embraced the role with enviable enthusiasm.

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=04/05/13/1340243

[ithacan]

1. I heard that this morning

it was excellent and very moving.

NPR should play this clip.

If you didn't hear it, go listen to it.

[Say_What]

2. or see it on Free Speech TV (FSTV) on Dish Network

I agree, there's a lot that NPR should be playing.

[Rainbowreflect]

3. Unfortunately bush does not have a heart.

If he did, this letter would break it.

[peekaloo]

4. very moving

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