[TontoKowalski]

The picture is sad, but it was the product of thoughtlessness, not malice.

Some of the comments on this thread are far more disturbing.

My mother, may she rest in peace, was the finest person I've ever known. She would have looked at this photo and heard the mother's voice, and she would have written:

"There, but for the grace of God, go I."

Compassion and Christ-like empathy used to be conservative values.

[Twink]

So did reason and logic.