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To: stockman_scott who wrote (234767)	6/30/2007 9:00:13 PM
From: epicure	Respond to of 281500

Thanks for posting that. Interesting article. You know some people on the right are a bit "unpolite", to put it politely, about Edwards' mentioning his son's death. I wonder if they say the same thing about Smith. Seems to me that the death of a child makes so profound a difference in your life, you must think about it constantly. I don't blame people of the left, or right, for getting motivated to speak out by their child's death, or speaking about it in the course of their lives, it must help to bring some meaning to what is basically an inexplicable event, that goes against what we assume will naturally happen in the order of things. One just doesn't expect to outlive one's children. I think having your son or daughter commit suicide must be worse than the more usual accident or illness, in that you are left saying, why did he do it? Why our family? Could I have done something differently. While I admire him for what he says about the war, I think I admire him more for being able to cope in such a public life, with what must have been a truly crushing experience.