This Veteran's Day isn't a pleasant one for Jacqui Janes. Her 20-year-old son Jamie Janes was killed in Afghanistan and the handwritten sympathy note British Prime Minister Gordon Brown sent the grieving mother contained 25 spelling mistakes including her name misspelled. 

But Janes wasn't just mad at the spelling errors (read his letter here) but how her son died and how lack of services in Afghanistan cost her son his life. After the British tabloid The Sun, who has openly supported the opposition party and is accused of exploiting the situation, revealed the errors, Brown called Janes and she recorded the conversation, "Mr Brown, listen to me... I know every injury that my child sustained that day. I know that my son could have survived but my son bled to death. How would you like it if one of your children, God forbid, went to a war doing something that he thought, where he was helping protect his Queen and country and because of lack, LACK of helicopters, lack of equipment your child bled to death and then you had the coroner have to tell you his every injury? Do you understand Mr Brown? Lack of equipment." I know this is a day that people are writing letters to veterans, a day where people are hugging vets and attending parades, and thinking service members, but it's also a day where thousands of soldiers and military personnel from not just the U.S. are engaged in combat in situations that are very dangerous. And the anger and anguish families of deceased soldiers feel deserves to be heard. Yes, we should give a soldier a handshake, but I'd like to welcome more home with handshakes and parades, not funerals and flag draped coffins.