A chum of mine has a poster of this picture in his living room. It always prompts me to reflect on the cause of the unhappy / anguished / secretive / tormented etc. expression on the face of daddy. It's intriguing as to why the girl asks this 'manly' type question while the boy seems absorbed in playing with his toy soldiers. I guess that the nub of it is that the question has confronted daddy with a problem.Is it a general problem about exposing inocent young minds to the horrors of war? Or is it a specific problem about his own contribution, or lack of it, to 'the Great War'?
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