Anyone read this? Hello Mum this is going to be hard for you to read

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I found this very upsetting.

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/hello-mum-this-is-going-to-be-hard-for-you-to-read-1753008.html

I bet his family did as well; I can't imagine losing my ds and he is only 3 years younger than this young man was when he died.

I know my Mum was praying she'd never have to read a letter like that when my db was posted to Afghanistan and he was in his 40s.

Heartbreaking but his parents must be very proud of him.

That is so hard to read - just like he said

I heard the interview on Radio 2 it was very moving.....

Welled up reading that. What a lovely young man. His family can be very proud, not only of his service, but of his character and his last words to them.

in tears now

Wow, how sad but yet will probably really help over time. I bet his parents are very proud of him and rightly so.

Oh lordy

Gosh, I shouldn't have read that at work! Heartbreaking and inspiring.

I cannot imagine how precious that letter must be to his parents and how proud they must be , very though.

I just started sobbing loudly at the bit where he wrote about his mothers own 'smell'. I don't know why I found that particular bit so moving.

Oh God

Should have a warning on it
Totally heartbreaking.
What a brave yoing man.

veryquick
totally agree re "your smell"
Very poignant

Very moving :( what a young man.

That letter is so gorgeous and I hope my boys feel the same about me when they're older. How proud must they be, but how heartbreaking

What an absolute credit to his family - I listened to the Radio 2 things with J.V, incredible what these families go through - Its one thing having a young lad sign up, its another remembering what happens to a whole community if something happens to them.

WOW :(

Wow I am in tears, what a lovely boy he was.

Oh Man. He was from near us. They are still always writing about him in our local paper all these months later.