United in Pain, Divided Over the War

What other grieving families are thinking

"NOT A DAY GOES BY THAT I DON'T WISH MY SON WERE STILL HERE. BUT I SUPPORT THE WAR."

THOMAS F. ZAPP

The father of Thomas J. Zapp, a Marine lance corporal killed near Fallujah on Nov. 8, 2004, made a pilgrimage from Richmond, Texas, to Crawford last week. He came to see Cindy Sheehan, not President Bush. "I want to sit down and talk to her," explains Zapp. "She says that a lot of people don't understand what's she's been through. Well, I do." That would probably be where their understanding ends. When Zapp learned of his son's death, it...

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