From poet John Guzlowski: What the War Taught Her

I recently received a list of Classic War Quotations from Simran Khurana at About.com and wasn’t surprised that all of them were by men. War seems to be the special province of men.

But while we think about war and read about war, we should never forget that a lot of times the people who suffer most are the civilians, the people left behind while the men are fighting. These are generally women and children. War hurts them in profound and lasting ways…

He includes his poem “What the War Taught Her,” his exploration of his mother’s experiences in the midst of war.