That Day in 2003

I was on a walk when my partner at the time called to tell me that the US had invaded Iraq and that they were looking for Weapons of Mass Destruction. Across the phone line and across the border, he being in Canada, we were quiet together and taking in the hugeness of the news.

The next morning, I tried to explain to my children what was going on, as I knew they would hear about it in school. I wanted them to have a storyline that…