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Why Children Should Tell Our War Stories

Why Children Should Tell Our War Stories

Update: 2025-10-14
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I find myself chasing the ever-fleeting hummingbird of innocence, that shimmering thing that flits just out of reach once you’ve seen too much of the world. But we need art to keep expressing this. Through the eyes of innocent children. only then do we remember how to feel horror again, unfiltered and unarmored.

 

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Why Children Should Tell Our War Stories

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