Vallery K

“It was easy sometimes to forget about the war. Easy to let a tiny tragedy in an ordinary day eclipse the greater horror of a global calamity. Easy to let the fear of a personal confrontation obscure the vaster dread of battles halfway across the world. It was easy to forget, when men and women were dancing and orchestras were playing, that other men and women were fighting and dying. Easy, when she held a sleeping child in her arms, to forget the other children awake in places she’d never heard of, children who were hungry and frightened and cold. It was easy, much too easy, to think only of herself and the smaller war that waited on the other side of her sister’s front door.”
― Lynda Cohen Loigman, The Wartime Sisters