[VOA]

I hate to hear the parents of slain soldiers sounding so bitter and unpatriotic,
as if their sons died for nothing.

Burying your child is not the natural plan of things.
Just about anything goes when working through that valley of despair...for a couple of
months to a year or so, I'd guess.

[Miss Marple]

I don't fault the parents, who are dealing with grief. I DO fault the organizations who prey upon that grief and manipulate the parents into political positions while they are in despair.

[Stultis]

Burying your child is not the natural plan of things.

Well, I agree with your larger point, but actually it has been the natural order of things, for most of human history, in many places still, and even in the most prosperous and developed countries up until the development of vaccines and antibiotics little more than a few generations ago, for parents to bury a very significant percentage of their children.

Find a 19th Century graveyard sometime and check out the born-died dates on the tombstones.