The makers of the popular children's programme Sesame Street have produced a show that aims to help children deal with one of their parents being sent away to war:
"It is estimated that over 700,00 American chilren have had a parent deployed to fight overseas."
I do not believe that suffering is quantifiable, or measured in numbers. Therefore, even though that figure is far less than the number of Iraqi children both killed or displaced as a result of the American invasion, I still feel that it is a tragedy.
What is also interesting from the excerpts shown here is that the programme is not glorifying serving in the army as something heroic or noble, but rather regrettably inevitable.
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