She'd just said goodbye to her 2-year-old son and would not see him for the next eight months.

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James Fenton's mother kissed him goodbye on the evening of 10 July 2010 and said she would see him the next day.

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The foreign secretary said it made little sense for the UK to "say goodbye" to senior diplomats when they turned 60 and "never see them again".

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And we see the devotion of citizens who put on the uniform, who kiss their families goodbye, who are willing to lay down their lives so that we can live ours in peace and in freedom.

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