Ice22-+Brother+Sam

October 18, 2007 Ruby Group

//My Brother Sam is Dead// //1787// //Dear Sam,// Please come home Sam! I hate the idea that my boy will be killed and I hate the War! I miss you very, very much and so does Tim. He looks up to you and thinks you’re wonderful. I’m not willing to loose another member of my family especially my smart, Yale graduate son. You are too young to know which side you want to fight for. Your side took my husband and now they have taken away my son. I really don’t want to loose you! Why are you putting your life in danger when you have no idea about what side is the right one? You are risking your life for something I don’t even think you believe in. You should have stopped your enlistment a year ago. I love you, please come home. How can you live with those evil men who took your father away? Do you remember what your father had said to you about the war? He told you all the gruesome stories that happened when he was in the war. He is wiser and much older than you and has experienced a lot more. He cried when you left and I would never imagine a tough guy like him crying. He knew what might have happened to you and that worried him. I know you think you are old enough but your not. You’re still a young boy and you shouldn’t have to fight. Didn’t you hear about what happened to Jerry Sanford? He was killed Sam, killed and he was only ten years old. That could be you next and I don’t want that. The British could decide to attack at any moment or the patriots might decide that you are a traitor. You never know what will happen to you or if you will be alive for tomorrow. It will be very tough for a boy of your age to see all this and maybe even have it happen to you. I want you back and I want the war to end. I don’t want you to die Sam! I am worried sick about you. I worry every day about whether or not you are alive. For all I know you could have your head severed off of your body. You are too young to be fighting in a war. To you this is all an adventure, going off and playing soldier boy and acting all tough and manly. A real man would come home and try and protect and support his mother and his younger brother like your father tried to do. You didn’t see him running off to fight in a war when he knew his family was in danger. Tim admires you and he misses you just like I do. Imagine what it would be like for you if your child left and went to fight against men with more weapons and skills. You are living in a very poor way. You are terribly thin and your clothes are all torn and tattered. One would think that you were never fed there. After seeing all these men come into the tavern with bad wounds and almost dead, I realized that I don’t want to see that happen to you. I love you with all my heart Sam. I really want you to come home. You have served your country long enough. It has been three years. How do you know that this war will end? It might never. You don’t deserve to suffer a hanging because you were loyal for three years. Your family needs you; I need you. That should be the best reason of all to come home from this war. Sam I would do anything to have you home again. I don’t want you to be hurt or killed. The idea of you suffering breaks my heart. Tim and I really miss you and don’t want to loose you. You are way too young to be involved in this war and to know what is right. You don’t know which side you should support. The side you chose killed your father and might turn around and kill you. The British might come and capture you, or worse, kill you in a way that would be unpleasant and unimaginable. War is unpredictable and the idea of you partaking in these violent events is unthinkable. I know you are trying to prove yourself as a tough, strong man, but we need you now more than ever. Please come home! I love you!

Love, Mom <3