But even as we mourn the dead, we should keep in mind the living, the survivors. Children are the ultimate victims of wars. Some become orphans overnight or are violently separated from their parents; many are wounded, many lose their homes; all become injured souls. This can also be said of adults, but the specific experience of children is that disaster hits them before the formation of a stable identity that we associate with adulthood, and in the case of the youngest ones, before any conscious sense of self. Researchers can predict with some accuracy the consequences of war trauma...