US NEWS:
An elderly American woman says she is both shocked and disappointed that she was forced to abandon her plans to mark the 100th birthday of former US powerbroker Henry Kissinger. (main picture)
Betty Flange, the 92year-old wife of a retired farmer from the small rural town of Futtbuk in Arkansas, said she had lost her son in the Vietnam War in 1974.
“Some time back I had heard that Henry Kissinger would turn 100 this month and so I got together with a dozen or so other mothers from Futtbuk who had also lost sons in Vietnam when Mr Kissinger was helping President Richard Nixon widen the war supposedly to end it sooner – go figure,” she said.
“My boy Johnny was 23 when he was killed, which was the average age of the 50,000 or so American troops who lost their lives.
“About 20,000 of those were killed when Mr Kissinger was helping shape US military and political tactics in Vietnam including its decision to secretly bomb Cambodia which only helped ratchet up tensions and deaths.
“Our mothers’ group from Futtbuk planned to visit Mr Kissinger and give him a special 100th birthday present – a bucket of water, a bar of soap, and a towel so he could wash our sons’ blood off his hands.
“We contacted his office and advised that we were all prepared to be polite and we even agreed we’d be prepared to endure any of Mr Kissinger’s famous lengthy dissertations on his political and diplomatic achievements.
“But our request for a meeting was knocked back once we asked that in return every single mother in our group should be allowed to tell Mr Kissinger of all the big and little things our late sons could have achieved in the past 50 or so years if they had lived,” Mrs Flange said.
She said the mothers’ group had forwarded Mr Kissinger their present by US Post.
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