How do you enter?
What, you mean this? It can help to know that you are already here.
Parents have been sending the children to school with special stickers: names, telephone, blood type––in case, in the event––unmentionable, but. Some schools made these stickers mandatory. They have been practicing. In case of fire, one drill; bomb, another. The idea is not to panic.
How?
It can help to know that––
Not to say too much. We want them to feel normal, say the mothers.
What now?
We pray, says one mother. We pray a lot, she says, for peace.
But how can––
Look. We are already here.
But––
We hold the babies, hold the prayers. We hold on, and the windows are shaking.
Shhh, we say, shh. What else?
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For the mothers and the babies, the brothers, fathers, the missing, and those holding in solidarity and love.
Sources referenced: Foreign Policy and Today.
This is really powerful and humanizes the invasion in ways relatable to most adults. Our representatives should read this and stop pointing fingers and come up with a plan to protect those children and adults.
Jeff, thank you for this. I agree with you.