Mommy What Was War?

Mommy... What Was War? Tells Of A Quest That Began With A Simple Question That Had But One Aim: To Help Hasten The Day When Children Will Be Able To Look Back On War As An 'Inconceivable Aberration' Of Their Forefathers. The Question Was This: How Can We Discover The Sources Of Wholeness Healing And Hope Amidst A Broken And Suffering World? It Is A Noble Thing You Are Doing Said Some This Quest For A Solution To The Problem That Is War; But Also It Is A Waste Of Your Life. You Are Foolish! But All Such Protestations Fell Before My Perceived Essence Of What It Means To Be A Person A Human Being. Adopting Francis Younghusband'S Religion As That Of An Explorer With Whom I'D Felt A Spiritual Kinship I Began My Search. It Was Into The Wilderness And Wastelands Of War Where Law Is Silent And Lie Prevails Where Ever Since The Vietnam Nightmare Of A Long 35 Years Ago I'Ve All But Kept Myself Embedded - But Not Without Emerging With A Solution. And Not Without Having Gone Outside The Box Of Things To Find That Solution. It Was Carl Sandburg Who Wrote Little Girl . . . Sometime They'Ll Give A War And Nobody Will Come.