Political Quotes

“The one that focused on his family begins with this line, speaking of Larry Johnson's family: Johanna Johnson thought she would die first, not any of her four kids. This is what Larry's mom is quoted as saying in the second line of the story: You're not supposed to bury your son. Your son is supposed to bury you. It isn't supposed to be this way. The story went on to talk about what Larry's hopes and dreams were, not only for himself but for his own mother. The story says that Larry Johnson ``loved his mom so much that he always promised he would some day make sure she no longer had to work. He would buy her a double- block home in California, and she would live on one side and live off the rent from the other half.'' That was a soldier's dream for his mother--just 19 years old and not only thinking about the rest of his life, not only volunteering to serve his country in the Marine Corps and going to Afghanistan, but to have a dream--a dream for his mother's future that he hoped to bring to fruition. Larry Johnson's sister Ashley is 21 years old, just 2 years older than Larry. She talked about the knock at the door that no family, no mother or father, no brother or sister--no loved one--ever wants to be present for. But Ashley heard the knock at the door. It was a hard knock at the door, she remembered. The one marine who was at the door asked, ``Is your mom home?'' This is what Ashley said after that.…”