Useless, useless

[Linda Anderson]

(03-12-2013 02:26 PM)Jenny Wrote:  As for his mother, I doubt she would have been appalled or angry to hear her son's "Tell mother I died for my country" quote. She would have been grieving her beloved son with all the sorrow of any mother who loses a child long before she learned of his dying words. If anything it would have caused her even more sorrow to know he was thinking of her at the end, politics be damned.

I didn't mean she would be appalled or angry but I don't believe it wouldn't have made her feel any better to hear his words although Booth may have thought that it would. At any rate, I think he was thinking more of himself telling the soldiers how noble he was to die for his country.

Powell is very baffling, Kate, if he was indeed remorseful, which I believe he was. Maybe the bloody mess that he left at the Sewards changed him in some way. It's one thing to think of doing something and another to actually do it. Maybe he did think it was his duty and he continued to think so after because he had to live with himself in some way. He had come a long way from his religious upbringing and maybe it kicked in.