Congressman Meuser,

I have never been blessed with children of my own so I share with you the writings of an American mother as she reflects on the death of 165 children killed on February 28, 2026. They died as a result of a bomb that was delivered on the school they were attending as part of Operation Epic Fury.

“There is an emptiness that follows violence that is not quiet, even when no one is speaking. It has weight, temperature, and it moves through rooms like a slow breeze. It lives in the place where a child should be, in the space beside you on a mat, in the corner where their backpack sat, in the cup that still has their fingerprints. It shows up in the instinct to call their name, and the moment that follows, when the body remembers before the mind has even caught up. It shows up when you reach for the future and your hand closes on air.

And somewhere far away from all of that, in rooms made comfortable by distance, there are men who will never smell that smoke. Men who will never kneel in that dirt, men who will never carry a child whose weight has gone wrong in your arms, never have to live with the sound a mother makes when she realizes there was nothing she could do. They stand at lecterns and sit behind polished tables and gesture at maps as if a map is the same thing as a neighborhood, as if a coordinate is the same thing as a classroom, as if a sentence spoken into a microphone can erase what a bomb does to a body.”

Congressman, there is no cause no matter how righteous the claim, that justifies the horror our countries have visited on these children and their families. I urge you to consider them the next time you give an answer to the media about the just nature of this war. I also urge you to speak to the these families through every means at you disposal to share in their grief.

This war is our President’s war and not one of the American people. I urge you to act with all urgency to speak against and put an end to this conflict.

NORM WINDLE

Muncy

Submitted by Virtual Newsroom