I heard it. I think Paddy O'Connell's recation was contrived.
I heard an article, I think it was "From Our Own Correspondent", a few days ago where the BBC reporter came across some sort of bomb crater and when he looked down several pairs of eyes looked back at him. It was a little group of young boys, brothers and cousins from one family. They spent every day in that crater, and they were waiting for the mother to return with food. As the reprter left one of the boys asked him, "When is our Mum coming back?"
That has stuck more in my mind longer than this love letter will.
I know we have to be grateful to reporters and photographers in war zones. It is a dangerous job, but they know what they are getting into. Those children had no choice.
All my sympathy goes to the mothers and children in the war torn parts of Syria, and in the the makeshift refugee camps with flimsy shelters between them and the harsh winter. None left over for anyone else.
Should the Judge in the teenagers rape case be struck off ?
