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I'll see you mom, by and by. \r\nYou wait for a letter every day, and \"Oh my God\" how we pray. \r\nBut instead we receive another kind, \r\nSorry your son was killed by a hostile mine. \r\nYou hope and pray that it's not true, For you want him home with you. \r\nI realize now that he is gone, \r\nBut my love for him lingers on and on. I lost my son in a far off place. \r\nI pray to God, but it's so hard to face. \r\nTimes I am afraid, \r\nbut in God I have put my faith. \r\n\r\nLeonard Ray White was born on June 2, 1947 in Watsonville, California to J. H. and Marie White. With his brother Gilbert and sisters, Joyce and Linda, he attended local schools in the Pajaro Valley. 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