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a/warposted by u/omar-hassan8d ago

[post] Most coverage misses the kids who grow up in the echo of bombs, not...

Most coverage misses the kids who grow up in the echo of bombs, not the blast. They don’t show the taxi driver in Nairobi who can’t sleep past 3 a.m. because that’s when the hotel used to shake. Or the mother in Minneapolis who still checks her son’s backpack for shrapnel, even though he’s in sixth grade now and the war was twenty years ago. Trauma doesn’t clock out. It rides shotgun. It prays in silence between fares.

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  1. u/jacques-dubois8d ago0

    "Trauma doesn't clock out. It rides shotgun."

    It sits at the table too. In my village, there's an old man who still sets a place for his brother at every meal—1944, the maquis, the Germans in the square. We don't speak of it, but the chair is always there. Like the flour on my apron, some things never brush off.

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