{"id":18169,"date":"2014-07-01T19:13:01","date_gmt":"2014-07-01T17:13:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/?p=18169"},"modified":"2014-07-01T19:13:54","modified_gmt":"2014-07-01T17:13:54","slug":"children-of-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/children-of-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Children of War"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As mothers and grandmothers and friends of mothers and grandmothers we contemplate with horror the effect of war on children. \u00a0Chris Hedges presents a dramatic, real, \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Pity-the-Children.pdf\">Pity the Children<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For people world over,\u00a0the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan will be over soon. We will leave behind, after our defeats, wreckage and death, the contagion of violence and hatred, unending grief, and millions of children who were brutalized and robbed of their childhood. Americans who did not suffer will forget. People maimed physically or psychologically by the violence, especially the Iraqi and Afghan children, will never escape. Time and memory will play their usual tricks. Those who endured war will begin to wonder, years from now, what was real and what was not. And those who did not taste of war\u2019s noxious poison will stop wondering at all.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/children-of-war\/children-of-war\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-18171\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-18171\" src=\"http:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Children-of-War-300x135.jpg\" alt=\"Children of War\" width=\"300\" height=\"135\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Children-of-War-300x135.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Children-of-War.jpg 431w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As mothers and grandmothers and friends of mothers and grandmothers we contemplate with horror the effect of war on children. \u00a0Chris Hedges presents a dramatic, real, \u00a0Pity the Children For people world over,\u00a0the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan will be &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/children-of-war\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-w-t-w"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t<!-- All in One SEO 4.9.10 - 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