Why is there war? Written By Laura Workman 1968

(Read by her Father Dan J. Workman at her funeral)

published on June 7^th, 1968 in the Herald Journal in Logan , where she was attending school.  She was in the 6^th grade, so she was 11 years old.  It was during the Vietnam War, and this is what she writes:

Why is there war?

To kill and fight and murder and destroy.

To part a family, happy, full

From the father, son or boy.

To burn the homes of other men,

Our brothers, like us all.

To leave a family fatherless,

A little child or fighting man,

Helpless, wounded, lame.

We could stop this war and strife

If we could see one thing:

The joy and radiant happiness

That peace, pure peace on earth could bring.