Vietnam vet finds nurse by chance who held his dying son in Iraq

[RamboLiberal]

http://www.onnnews.com/Global/story.asp?S=3408892

Vietnam veteran Allen Hoe came to Washington for Memorial Day to speak at the wall built for his fallen comrades, and by chance made a remarkable discovery.

He found the nurse who held his son as he died in Iraq.

Hoe told the crowd that a few hours earlier, he'd stopped by the memorial built for Vietnam nurses. He met a woman who looked at the button he was wearing that bore a picture of his son, and she recognized him. She told him that she was an Army nurse and had held his son, First Lieutenant Nainoa (ny-ee-NOH'-ah) Hoe, as he died in Iraq. He was shot by a sniper in January while on foot patrol in Mosul.

[Selatius]

1. Oh, what a tragedy.

What sort of fucked up irony is it to go to the wall to honor those who died by your side decades prior only to find the nurse who held your son as he died only a few months before. What a sorry tragedy of a war, a tragic waste of life.

[applegrove]

2. How sad.