Not responding to correspondence, or to those, who deliberately took it upon themselves to talk through with you the correct procedure for making the appropriate application, reflects upon your mistaken hope that on the day everything will go smoothly. Having written to you on numerous occasions, encouraging you to make the right application, you must take some responsibility for ignoring the advice contained in the many letters written on how to make the appropriate submission. I regret to inform you… that your application for entry into heaven has been unsuccessful. One thing is for certain…it is never good news. It is heart breaking.Īnd yet these same words might mean you were unsuccessful in your job application your attempt to receive benefits, treatment for an illness or a claim for insurance. Was this a mini war industry needing an army of people who could only responded in this way to death and sadness? Those receiving such a letter were left to respond to this, the most intrusive correspondence, full of tragedy, unbearable. I wonder with so many millions of telegrams sent to so many people during the First World War did this form of expression, at its source, retain its meaning? Did it became impersonal, just words on a paper, relentlessly day after day the words were typed only the person’s name was changed. A family is torn apart by grief, indescribable loss and irreparable separation. Confronted by loss of life these five words are never welcome. Three of her four sons have been killed whilst fighting the enemy: ‘I regret to inform you…’įive words that indicate profound suffering and which can crush an individual, bringing devastating loss. The woman collapses knowing this can only be bad news. She goes to her front porch to receive the visitors, one an army officer and the other a priest. There is a moment during the film ‘ Saving Private Ryan’ which shows a middle age woman washing dishes, as she looks out of her window she sees a car driving up to her house. As a consequence of some of the major wars, WW1, WW2, the Vietnam War the following words were used in a letter sent to surviving family members:
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