>>I hope someday we can find a way for mothers not to have to make this call at all.
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>This may be obvious but...
>Any fair minded person would feel anguish about any loss of innocent life.
>But as soon as the "child" is old enough and enters the arm services, the parent no longer have control of where, why, and when their child is going.

I think you misunderstood my comments. My method for judging the justification of sending soldiers to war is whether I'd be willing to send my own child for that cause. Obviously, a mother has no control over what her child does in the military.

Tamar