'Far more children are killed in today's wars than combatants. War has become the killing of children.'
Children are massacred, again and again, as the military forces of the world fight and kill, not so much one another, but rather various random swaths of humanity.At a certain point, as I was reading the book I'd recently been sent, a strange transformation began occurring: Gradually, as I moved ever deeper into it, I wasn't so much reading as quietly singing a hymn . . . participating in a chant.
And a terrifyingly large percentage of those civilian deaths happen to be children, which is to say:"Far more children are killed in today's wars than combatants. War has become the killing of children." What does this mean, for God's sake? These wars aren't my fault! As I read the book, I hurried past those words, but I couldn't let go of them. Finally I read them aloud. I suggest you do the same. I'll wait . . .
, who said during the Nuremberg Trials:"Naturally the common people don't want war: Neither in Russia, nor in England, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along. . . . All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked. . . . It works the same in any country.
"In the classroom where Baby Evelyn became the teacher, the students soon claimed her as their own. They welcomed her arrivals with singing and gifts—drawings, paper necklaces, poems, and flowers. They loved her and wished they could take her home with them."
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