From Letters of Note:
The following angry letter was sent to then-U.S. President Harry Truman in 1953 by the father of George Banning, a young soldier who had recently been killed whilst serving in the Korean War. When Truman passed away 20 years later, this letter was discovered in his desk along with Banning’s posthumously awarded Purple Heart.
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That is a powerful reminder that we need to keep in mind that God is in control. For the parent to be that upset is understandable and I have never been in that position, but to wish harm on someone else because of your grief is – to say the least – sad. For Truman to have kept it all those years is a testimony that he understood the decisions he was making and I think proves that he would have sacrificed himself or his own children for the same cause. I pray our leadership today is as caring as this man seems to have been.