letter to sweetheart

[fuggy]

how moving was that? how proud the girlfriend and parents of this young man must be. his love for helen o'pray, his feelings for her. you have to read this letter to fully appriciate something that i wish i was capable of expressing.

[Dom Tuk]

To most Iraqis the unfortunate British soldier was a terrorist in their land. They are not welcome. So in effect the paper published a terrorists love letter. Strange how different people see it differently.

[noxlumos]

Kim, It's her letter, her property, and I happen to think she was thinking very straight. She clearly feels that this carnage needs to end and if by people reading this, support for an end to this conflict grows then she will have accomplished something and spared other families both Uk and Iraqi.
How rude and highhanded of you to make such disparaging assumptions about the girl and how very wrong to assume that she had not thought it through properly. I think it is a tribute of the highest magnitude to her lover that she allowed something so precious sent for her eyes only to be read by the rest of the world. She clearly loved her man very much and doesn't want that pain repaeated for countless other families.
I'm surprised you can't understand such a simple and unselfish concept.

[sp1814]

I've just read the letter, and yes, it's moving, but I felt dirty reading it.

I can't explain exactly why...but I felt really, really wrong reading it.

It's just way too personal for me.

[flubber]

Kim, I so agree with your viewpoint. I agree with many points raised here. The need for the media to publicise that letter was unnecessary and I think any letters should be held as confidential between writer and the recipient.

So many innocents on both sides slaughtered and many had no time to leave letters and if they did such letters were given the respect of privacy and the writer honoured that his deepest thoughts were not made available for world wide publication.

I sympathise with the girl very much as I sympathise with ANY innocent on either side in a stupid and nonsensical war who loses their life. Publicise personal letters? nope.

[juddlinski]

Also, anyone that starts a letter 'if you're reading this i'm dead' is kinda asking for trouble.