''The War Department
Regrets to Inform You...''

"People seldom react alike to the impact of grief. Their responses run the whole gamut of emotions. One mother, receiving the news that her son was dead, crushed the paper in her hand and looking beyond the messenger, said, 'If it hadn't been my son, it would have been some other mother's'".

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