[bombcar]

Adults are often more traumatized by it than children are; for them it's just the new normal, and something to play with.

[zweifuss]

As a small child in Essen, my mother lived through the bombing nights of 44/45 and the also harsh post-war period. The trauma that people close to her can suddenly disappear (e.g. suicide, abandonment, sometimes result of canibalism) still shapes her behavior today.