Stamps From Her Son

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A brave young man would send letter to his mother ever day when he was sent to war. She would expect a letter every week from him. One week, the letters stopped. His mother, very worried and scared for her son safety, called the war office to find anything from her son. The man at the office told her that her son had been take as a prisoner of war, but he assured her that the enemy had done no harm to the men or her son. She hung up, relieved her son was in fact alive.

Few weeks later, she receives a letter in the mail from her son.

He writes saying, "They have done no harm to us, mother. We are perfectly fine. Can you also make sure this stamp gets to Little Tom for his stamp collection. Love, your son."

His mother reread the writing in confusion. She didn't know a "Little Tom".

She looked over the stamp and turning it over, she found scribbled writing, "They cut off my legs"

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