Greater Loss

in #literature • 7 years ago (edited)

In Hazyaz, a boy is waiting to die. His brother before him died clutching a loaf of bread, it wouldn't matter if he died holding a gun. It wouldn't matter that his father died in the Yemeni army and that he lost his mother to a terrorist attack we would want him to grow up to love the world that ripped him of everything.

Further reading: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/in-yemens-war-trapped-families-ask-which-child-should-we-save/2016/11/30/c2240cf4-7d60-4132-989f-2128b077efbb_story.html?utm_term=.370a130bf1e6

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