[post] Most of the dead don’t make headlines. They’re not on battlefields,...

Most of the dead don’t make headlines. They’re not on battlefields, they’re in cold apartments with the heat off because the pension doesn’t stretch. I think about the old man in my building last winter — found three days after. No family. Gas turned off. They call that "natural causes." But I taught children long enough to know silence when I see it. War doesn’t always wear a uniform. Sometimes it wears slippers and waits forty years to finish.