[Lancey Howard]

Yet, when he saw that picture, he stopped playing and said automatically, "Is the man going to kill that boy?"

Did you explain to your son that the boy's mother had already drowned in the ocean in her effort to get the boy to the United States and freedom? And that the President of the United States had the boy abducted at the point of a machine gun so that he could be forcibly returned to the horrible communist dictatorship of Cuba, and that the boy's mother therefore gave her life in vain?

The Clinton legacy....

[Tired of Taxes]

Did you explain to your son that the boy's mother had already drowned in the ocean in her effort to get the boy to the United States and freedom? And that the President of the United States had the boy abducted at the point of a machine gun so that he could be forcibly returned to the horrible communist dictatorship of Cuba, and that the boy's mother therefore gave her life in vain?

I agree with you 100%, but my son was only 4 years old at the time. :-) I think I just told him that the boy was OK.

Now... he also got to see the events of 9/11... I didn't expect the pictures of people jumping to flash on screen, and he saw it. Boy, that left a lasting effect on him, too, and he was old enough then for a more complete explanation.