"So, after a while,
the young man wrote,
'Dear Mom, sure rains here a lot.' "
This one was actually kind of depressing. The thing that made this so was not the fact that this man/boy was fighting in a war (yes, that IS depressing as well...), but rather how he was trying to protect his mother from the truth the whole time. I feel like this was very true during the Vietnam War. People knew it was happening and seemed invested in it, as long as they did not know the specific details. I think people wanted just to believe that everything was alright. They thought they wanted to know the truth, but once they did, the reverted back to the same old thinking prior to the reality check. This is really shown in the man/boy's mother. She wanted to know, but once she did, she couldn't handle it. This to me, makes this poem extremely saddending.
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