Remember The Things We Most Want To Forget

On this Remembrance Day, we take a moment to consider the fallen. We think about the young soldiers that will never return home, but also the children that will grow up missing a parent’s love, the wives that live in constant fear and the husbands who are ashamed that they cry themselves to sleep every night.

War has no victors, but there are no shortage of victims. Increasingly they are the women whose communities have become the front lines of war, their houses the battlegrounds. They did not sign-up for service. They don’t want to die a heroic death, but simply survive another day.

These people are not collateral damage, accidentally caught in the cross fire, but the targets. Rape is increasingly being used as a weapon of war. In fact, is it more dangerous to be a woman than a soldier.

Yet involving these mothers, wives and daughters in war means that these women are now part of the battle and they will fight for what they want — peace.

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Sometimes the thing you are most desperate to forget is the one thing you must always remember. As women, we owe it to them. It is the least we can do.

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