Wednesday’s wise women … mothers.

We hear a lot about baby boomers; children who are born during the boom period  after a war.  Their existence; the opportunities and success they are bound achieve.
But what about the girl who is born fifteen years before a war. Her life is cut short; her education ended.  Her opportunities will be null and void.  Any hope of university, a chance to develop a career or indeed form a long and meaningful relationship and have babies will be dashed. Instead she will seconded to the war effort making arms, working on a farm or fighting on the front lines.  After years of disruption and loss; she returns to her home if it is still there to pick up the pieces.
Without a complete education the girl is at the mercy of the homecoming heroes.  To recreate the lost community. She becomes a machine to produce a future workforce, slaves…