Angel of Victory

A title with ever changing meanings.

The last one standing – in war, in battle, in a hospital ward.

Buried inside a mask, anonymous: a fighter, a carer. Being asked to do the unthinkable – killing or holding the hands of the dying. Seeing horrors that cannot be erased from the mind. Being asked to be a superhero.

But after the conflict, what happens? Being asked to just go back to normal.

Impossible.

Let the mask remind all of us that inside the layers of protection is not a machine, but a person.

A person who will need our care. Let us care for them as they cared for us.

Then there will be true victory.