I feel the immense pain that Mr. Pollack must be going through with losing a child, much like General Kelly losing his son in a senseless war. The circle will never be able to be squared for both men, and they flail helplessly - often in public - with the anguish of any parent who has lost a child.
Perhaps they need to step back and reconsider their points of view, endorsements of certain ideologies that have given rise to these tragedies, and listen to the young people who have lived through it all and are now saying ENOUGH and NEVER AGAIN.
And as Graham Nash so eloquently stated back in another time of the senseless killing of young during the Vietnam ear:
You, who are on the road must have a code that you can live by.
And so become yourself because the past is just a good bye.
Teach your children well, their father's hell did slowly go by,
And feed them on your dreams, the one they pick's the one you'll know by.
Don't you ever ask them why, if they told you, you would cry,
So just look at them and sigh and know they love you.
And you, of tender years can't know the fears that your elders grew by,
And so please help them with your youth, they seek the truth before they can die.
Teach your parents well, their children's hell will slowly go by,
And feed them on your dreams, the one they pick's the one you'll know by.
Don't you ever ask them why, if they told you, you would cry,
So just look at them and sigh and know they love you.
from Teach Your Children by Graham Nash
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