- Hello, hello mom, how are you?
- Hello son, I'm good, how are you?
- I'm okay, Mom I come home in five days.
- I am very happy, my boy.
- Mom, my comrade arrives with me, can he left for a few days?
- Yes, of course, even for a month, we will not interfere with it.
- Mom, he just lost his leg when a mine explosion.
- No, son, it will be our burden.
A day later, someone calling his mother:
- ... your son... DIED of suicide...and left a letter "Mom, I do not want to be burden for you with the end of life, I'm sorry"
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Already read somewhere, but it is good to read again and again, to feel the aftermath of the war, sufferings of families!!!
noaslpls,
I find it hard to make such findings, maybe you're right, maybe not.
I only know that people who was at war have a quite another world view. They saw death every day and they have another philosophy of life.
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He didn't to burden his Mom for taking care of him, but he left a burden to his Mom by making his Mom felt guilty for saying such little 'burden'. His Mom will be burdened for rest of her life.
ARrality
Thank you for the comment
The action of the boy refers to a category of sacrifice. For the first time he had sacrificed itself when he went to war. He was ready to die for his native country.... but there are things worse than death...
zdravo linda eh priviet. To sacrifice oneself for a highly moral cause, is done from time to time, Linda, but to commit suicide is something else. I don't know into which category shall I put that boy?