'What is war? asked four-year-old Molly. Her seven-year-old sister Ellie replied, 'It's when soldiers have guns and planes and fight.'Molly continued, 'But what is war for?'
Ellie thought for a moment. 'I don't know,' she said.
Many of us are shocked and appalled at the atrocities reported in the media recently.
Rockets and gunfire have left whole families devastated, bullets and bombs sparing neither old nor young. Our televisions have shown graphic images of the devastation of war: young children in the midst of fighting, some carried to their graves by weeping fathers; others fleeing from persecution; mothers without milk for their babies. We see young children at the heart of struggles for survival while we hear calls for peace.
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