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Chicano in Stockholm sees what war does to children

T he writer James Hillman, in Our Terrible Love of War , says that peace isn't the absence of war, it's the abscence of remembering. B ut if we don't want war we have to remember. We have to know what war does to soldiers, to the familes, to the women, to the children. With that in mind, here's a postcard from Pablo Martinez, poeta, university professor and activista, who's been in Stockholm doing quien-sabe-que. Stockholm , 24 July 2007 It's been wonderfully cool here the past two days. But I'm not writing to issue a weather report -- that's the job of the Weather Channel. Today I visited the Medelhavs Museet, the Museum of Middle Eastern art and culture. Unlike the other museums I've visited, this one was quiet -- eerily quiet. I was there to see an exhibition of photographs; the show is titled Children of Baghdad in 1999. A fairly pedestrian title, until you consider that in 1999 , Iraq was not anywhere in our collective consciou