I think to be fair you should remember that she begged her son not to go into the military, and offered to take him to Canada.

She did not send him, as your rhetoric implies.

Parental responsibility changes dramatically when a human being becomes of age; to try and control another adult's life other than by providing what wisdom one can is tricky and almost impossible in some cases. I would hazard a guess, Kirsten, that you have not raised a child to adulthood.

We don't raise our children to be things, but to be alive, well, as competent and intelligent as possible, to be endowed with the skills we can teachthem. Anything more particular than that is to deny the individual his own life's path, which often has little or nothing to do with your wishes, and is pretty much of a crapshoot anyway.

OF course she has some guilt and wishes she had thought of something to do to stop him from going to war. At least she is doing something to stop others from having to, little though it is.

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