"Daddy got all dressed up in his soldiers clothes and kissed me mom "goodbye"
I didn't let him see me go behind the tree and cry.
I really didn't want him to go away from me
but he put me on his knee that day and said
he hoped I would take good care of mommy and be very very brave.
mommy said ,daddy was going far far away cause some kids parents over in
another land had this poison and some gas and they would be bringing it over here to the USA.
Daddy tried to help me understand how come their daddies were hiding that chemical stuff
My daddy raised me good he taught me not to mess with the medicine in the cabinet and he always
told me not to point a gun at anybody..and I won't lessen I see that old sad-dam...........
mommy isn't holding up too good. I think.I have tried to help her out and I even been carrying the trash out
like daddy has always done.Mommy hasn't even had to tell me to get my homework done.....
I think she is missing daddy cause when Came home today she had his picture out.
she was sitting at the kitchen table and had the radio on told me that it was playing her and daddy's favorite song.
I got into a fight on the school bus today but I will keep that to myself
.It wasn't my fault anyway everybody on the bus heard what Daniel had to say.
He told me my daddy is just one of bushes thieves .H e said they had just gone to war
for the stupid oil.I told him my daddy loves me and mom and he was just gone to protect our home.
He doesn't know how it hurt s to have your daddy gone . Guess I got too angry and shouldn't have pushed him down
but my daddy's across the world .............. fighting for uncle am and I just hope he doesn't get hurt
and doesn't have to die I want him to always be my hero but most of all I want him alive..........
by Helen Thompson
