Professor Sharon » war and peace http://www.profsharon.net Sun, 29 Jan 2012 19:10:36 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Children : An uncounted consequence of War http://www.profsharon.net/musings/children-an-uncounted-consequence-of-war/ http://www.profsharon.net/musings/children-an-uncounted-consequence-of-war/#comments Wed, 11 Nov 2009 18:09:21 +0000 ProfSharon http://www.profsharon.net/?p=435 On this day when we remember our Veterans – my father one of them – I want to say thank you to the children of those veterans.  Children who didn’t necessarily get a choice about whether their parent was a soldier and was sent to war.

I did a bit of Internet research, and only came up with a few websites whose stats I might believe:  19 children who lost parents in last week’s Fort Hood killing, perhaps as many as 5 million Iraqi children lost a parent, and close to 1200 American children lost a parent to the Iraqi and Afghanistan wars in the past 8 years.

That’s one too many for me.

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