RE: Steemit Engagement Challenge S9W4 - "Say No to War"
I have never been in a war and it is an experience that I do not process in my subconscious; therefore, I doubt very much that I would be in a scenario of violence like that. I feel compassion for the millions of people who are under the destructive influence of war.
I remember as a child, when I was about 6 or 7 years old; I was in Caracas, Venezuela, during that bloody February 1989; the disconsolate screams of injured or fallen family members and the intimidating sound of rifles in bursts, never ceased. Time had stopped for me, my beloved aunt tried to keep calm and not to panic, she put a quilt in the bathroom and laid me down there, she lay down next to me while she dried my tears. She told me that it would pass in a moment and it didn't, that situation lasted for hours and days. It is an experience I would never want to repeat, after that pitched battle the exact number of dead was never known, it was said that more than two thousand people died, while silenced sources maintain that the figure was more than 5 dead.
And I bring this remark because you touch a very sensitive point in your dissertation, the children. The psychological damage of those who survive may take many years to heal and in other cases, they may never disappear from the mind but with the extinction of physical life.
War is reprehensible and love should be sown in its place.
It has been a pleasure to read another of your interesting contents. Thank you for sharing it with the community.
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Thank you so much for this interesting points you've bring to light.
War isn't a very nice experience and I can only Imagine this experience you have explained here. It is sad to know you have witness such disastrous a moment in your country.
That's a long time and you were very young...,but the way you are describing it with details shows how long such information be retained in people's
mind and how much trauma such experience can cause to someone.
Imagine people who are actually facing it everyday. Who will erase this from their minds..?🤦♂️
I feel so sad when a child's dream has been shattered as a result of what they or their parents are not guilty or worthy to recieve such bad treatment.
Yes, I was very young, just starting school. We had to cross streets that were stained with blood and a few meters away lay bodies, waiting to be picked up by the authorities, the desolate crying and deep sadness was the sound that could be heard apart from the detonation of the rifles. It is a very unpleasant childhood experience and when you touched on the psychological damage to children, I identified with my childhood.
The scepter of greater imperial power and all the wealth of the planet does not justify the destruction and pain caused by armed conflicts and wars of any kind. An exhaustive program of psychological and social healing will be required to dissipate the damage caused to all those involved, because even the uniformed and their families are exposed to these emotional sequels.
Again, thanks for the informative supplement. Luminous embrace.