Pretense Falling

The rhetoric of protecting children from war, shielding those most vulnerable from our most horrific truths, was always a hypocrisy designed to protect the illusions that adults carry that we care more about our children then we do about ourselves, until finally that pretense, too, fell.

Lidia Yuknavitch in “The Book of Joan” 

Any war, no matter what the cause, will always affect children. Children lose their loved ones who are involved in war and they are often put in immediate physical and psychological danger because of war. I think that if someone considers children safe from war, they are either very naive or they just do not want to accept the consequences of war.

This quote is for September 27, 2017.