Heartfelt Read of a Soldiers Final Words
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to my dearest daddy, as this letter will only be used after my death. It may seem a somewhat macabre document, but I do not want you to look at it in that way. I've always had a feeling that our stay on earth. That thing in which we call life is but a transitory stage in our development and that the dreaded monosyllables. Death ought not to indicate anything to be feared. I've had my fling and now must pass on to the next stage the consumption of all human experience. So don't worry about me. I shall be all right. I would like to pay tribute instead to the courage which you and mother have shown and will continue to show in these tragic times. It is easy to meet an enemy, face to face and to laugh him to scorn. But the unseen enemies, hardship, anxiety, and despair are very different problems. But you have held the family together as few could have done. And so I take my hat off to you. What has kept me going is the spiritual force to be derived from music, Its reflections of my own feelings and the power it has to uplift the soul above earthly things. I am now off to the source of music and can fulfill the vague longings of my soul in becoming part of the fountain. Whence all good comes all I can do now is voice, my faith, that this war ends in victory and that you will have many years before you in which to resume a normal civil life. Good luck to you. ****! Those were son and soldier Michael Andrew Scott's final words to his father in the form of a letter, after Michael had faced the ultimate sacrifice by giving his life in the line of duty.