The Ultimate Sacrifice  

  " The silence of this woman stunned by her grief was a shout of pain louder than any of the earth's laments . The childs tears were the final condemnation of all the wars which shatter people who love each other."   Claude-Michel came across this image while thumbing through a magazine, It had a profound impact on him.   The little Vietnamese girl was about to board a plane from Ho Chi Minh City Airport for the United States where her father, an ex-GI she had never seen, was waiting for her. Her mother was leaving her there and would never see her again. She knew as only a mother could, that beyond this departure gate there was both a new life for her daughter and no life for her, and that she had willed it.   "I was so appalled by the image of this deliberate ripping apart that I had to sit down and catch my breath. I suffered for the mother as though I might see my own little boy leaving me forever and I suffered for the child as though in my early youth I had been forcibly removed from my parents. Was that not the most moving, the most staggering example of "The Ultimate Sacrifice,"