How do you speak of war without tears?

PHOTO:  A mosque employee prepares the body of Lamiamh Ali, 6. Four siblings were playing outside their home in Baghdad when a U.S. cluster bomb exploded.  Two of the children died that day and their brother died later as a result of his injuries. Photo taken April 26, 2003.  Photo by STEPHANIE SINCLAIR/Chicago Tribune

“The disparity between what we are told or what we believe about war and war itself is so vast that those who come back are often rendered speechless. What do you say to those who advocate war as an instrument to liberate the women of Afghanistan or bring democracy to Iraq? How do you tell them what war is like? How do you explain that the very proposition of war as an instrument of virtue is absurd? How do you cope with memories of children bleeding to death with bits of iron fragments peppered throughout their small bodies? How do you speak of war without tears?”

From The Photographer by Emmanuel Guibert