A father's grief

If only more parents were like him,adults would fight their wars and not send children.


http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/06/international/middleeast/06BOMB.html

from the first paragraph:

"The day after 16-year-old Sabih Abu Saud blew himself up in a West Bank village, with Israeli troops in pursuit, his father Kamal Abu Saud did something extremely unusual — he declined to eulogize his son as a hero."

to this one:

"Around midday, Israeli troops in armored jeeps began scouring the village of Azun, near Qalqiliya. The troops apparently had not spotted Sabih before he rushed toward one of their jeeps and blew himself up, a military official said."

and, then:

"On Tuesday afternoon, an ambulance delivered Sabih's body to the main hospital in Nablus, where it was turned over to the family. Hundreds of Nablus residents gathered at the hospital morgue, chanting "God is great," while young men fired automatic rifles into the air."


Sabih's father is so brave to state in the article that the "ultimate responsibility was Sabih's".