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Article: SHEEHAN POLITICIZES GRIEF.(Commentary/Editorial)(Column)
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- Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
- Article date:
- August 19, 2005
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Byline: Mike Rosen
'No one is so senseless as to choose of his own will war rather than peace, since in peace the sons bury their fathers, but in war the fathers bury their sons."
So spoke Croesus, king of Lydia, to Cyrus, king of the Persians in 550 B.C., as told by the Greek historian Herodotus. It should be noted that Croesus, having just been defeated in battle at the hands of Cyrus, was pleading for his life, so his eloquence may have been somewhat self-serving. But the point is that it's especially tragic for parents to see their children die prematurely, from any means.
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