Children

The thought provoking question of the day: if you were to play with a 6 year old little girl, what would you do? Draw a picture? Play with dolls? Toss a ball? Now imagine that the little girl has no arms, because she was in a vehicle that was hit by explosives. Now what would you do with her? How do you play?
While the above is incredibly sad on it’s own, an even sadder situation is how so many Iraqi children no longer attend school because of the violence. When insurgents bombed several of the schools, families halted the children’s attendance. With the war progressing onward for several years, the effect of the lack of education on part of Iraq’s youth is starting to be apparent. Young teen boys might be the male head of the family, and not be able to read or write. Only time will tell how the current generation of children will be as adults when their entire childhood is full of violence, hatred, and blood.