Status Updates From Pax (Pax, 1)

How many kids this week, he wondered, had woken up to find their worlds changed that way, their parents gone off to war, maybe never coming home? That was the worst, of course.But what about the smaller losses? How many kids missed their older brothers or sisters? How many friends had had to say goodbye? How many kids went hungry? How many had to move? How many pets had they had to leave behind to fend for themselves