Florists love May. People give their mothers flowers on Mother's Day. Mothers then turn around and place flowers on the graves of our fallen soldiers on Memorial Day a few weeks later.
Is this a tradition to help us mothers bear the pain of losing our children killed by a disease more devastating, I would argue, than any disease the world has ever known?
Sadly, with all the great brains and philosophies found among fellow humans, we allow this "disease" of violence to continue to take our best, century after century, war after war.
What if a war was declared and no mother let her son fight? What if no
one elected to work in arms factories?
War and weapons kill. What if we all gave our lives through active
resistance rather than fighting/killing innocent citizens just like us,
but from another country?
What if we women in every country refused to bear more children who are used simply to feed a war-hungry world?
It's in our hands. Or we can continue to sacrifice our children to a
human-driven disease called war.
Don't tell me I should be thankful others are fighting for my freedom
now. I don't accept any death of a fellow mother's son as a price for
my freedom, which is now most at risk from my own government.