How very sad is this story

No1Doyen


Joined: 04/07/2008
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Message Posted:
13/02/2010 13:34

A story is told about a soldier who was finally coming home after having fought in Vietnam. He called his parents from San Francisco. "Mom and Dad, I'm coming home, but I've got a favor to ask. I have a friend I'd like to bring with me."

"Sure," they replied, "we'd love to meet him."

"There's something you should know," the son continued. "He was hurt pretty badly in the fighting. He stepped on a land mine and lost an arm and a leg. He has nowhere else to go, and I want him to come live with us."

"I'm sorry to hear that, son. Maybe we can help him find somewhere to live."

"No, Mom and Dad, I want him to live with us."

No1Doyen


Joined: 04/07/2008
Posts: 16617

Message Posted:
13/02/2010 13:35

"Son," said the father, "you don't know what you're asking. Someone with such a handicap would be a terrible burden on us. We have our own lives to live, and we can't let something like this interfere with our lives. I think you should just come home and forget about this guy. He'll find a way to live on his own."

At that point, the son hung up the phone.

The parents heard nothing more from him. A few days later, however, they received a call from the San Francisco police. Their son had died after falling from a building, they were told. The police believed it was suicide. The grief-stricken parents flew to San Francisco and were taken to the city morgue to identify the body of their son. They recognized him, but to their horror they also discovered something they didn't know, their son had only one arm and one leg.

billyboy1


Joined: 01/06/2009
Posts: 590

Message Posted:
13/02/2010 13:45

That is very sad.....



Makes you think for sure

No1Doyen


Joined: 04/07/2008
Posts: 16617

Message Posted:
13/02/2010 13:47

Sure does BillyBoy. Accept people for what they are. If this story is true imagine how the parents feel now.

rowlo



Joined: 12/10/2008
Posts: 4796

Message Posted:
13/02/2010 15:13

and they moan about sheep shit ,some people dont know theyre actually living .

dizzycows


Joined: 12/05/2009
Posts: 2736

Message Posted:
13/02/2010 15:45

No1Doyen, that is so sad, puts things into perspective doesnt it. ......

Lilli



Joined: 21/07/2008
Posts: 13081

Message Posted:
13/02/2010 16:14

oh god that made me cry, diz you are right it does put things in perspective xx

smithy


Joined: 17/07/2008
Posts: 5301

Message Posted:
13/02/2010 16:20

How very sad that upset me, it makes you think how lucky we are

cooper


Joined: 23/10/2007
Posts: 3386

Message Posted:
13/02/2010 16:43

Very sad, here's all our boys now on the front line in Afghanistan and then you get folk on here bickering all the time over nowt, sure does make you wonder !!

BillyB


Joined: 19/05/2008
Posts: 436

Message Posted:
13/02/2010 16:52

Most of us would care for our loved ones if they ever became disabled but to take care of a total stranger is something else.

Oleander


Joined: 03/05/2009
Posts: 302

Message Posted:
13/02/2010 18:46

It's been circulating for a while. Read all about it on Snopes - to be taken more as a legend or parable than as a true story:



http://www.snopes.com/military/amputee.asp

CarrieRBag



Joined: 23/12/2008
Posts: 1374

Message Posted:
13/02/2010 21:56

My thoughts exactly Billy B, for a loved one, most of us would go to the end of the earth but to ask such a thing of us for a friend is not the same at all. That said, a sad indictment on our society when we cannot extend a helping hand.

boysie2670


Joined: 28/01/2008
Posts: 65

Message Posted:
13/02/2010 22:20

No 1 D,ask the question, "how long has the Vietnam war" been over.

alanka


Joined: 15/09/2007
Posts: 154

Message Posted:
14/02/2010 03:32

So sad, another one of the 'true stories' doing the rounds on the www - do wish people would check before they pass on these false stories

Hippo


Joined: 02/02/2007
Posts: 2070

Message Posted:
14/02/2010 04:40

It is a parable not a story-I think it illustrates very well mans inhumanity.