Card from Mom to her soldier son

Posted by Susan Turnbull March 3, 2010 in Blog

A great story came across my desk this morning,  about the impact of a mother’s words on her son in the field.  Home, he pulls out the card she sent him, now stained with mud.  “It was tough,” he tells her. “I felt myself slipping into depression.  At night when I couldn’t sleep and wondered how I would go on, I would reach into that pocket of my combat jacket and pull out your card, unfold it and read your message.  Those words of pride and encouragement were what would lift me out of my funk….unfortunately, we often were sleeping in mud along the delta and that is where I picked up all that reddish brown mud.”

The story was shared by attorney John Warnick, a passionate advocate of incorporating personal, emotional language into the body of trust documents. Warnick comments on the story: “So in this touching story of a mother’s thoughtfulness and words of encouragement, we learn to never underestimate the power of a card or note. “ That’s exactly why people create an ethical will.