I’m struggling tonight, I am trying to come to grips that evil has once again taken symbols of another culture they incorrectly believe they emulate and are using them to mark those who they have taken safety and innocence from. I have seen pictures of children as young as six.
The Viking Compass, the Valknot, as well as the usual nazi and Central American symbols, are fairly common, usually, I can separate these things, but tonight, and for the last few days I am unable to see these symbols without it eliciting a visceral response in my chest.
Here is the problem,, Mrs. ZM is at a Norse-centric holiday event, where these symbols are quite prevalent, as they should be, and I want to be supportive, but I keep seeing these pictures and I can’t get the image of a small child with burned flesh or scars. Although I have not been there firsthand to see these children, I have smelled burned flesh on more than one occasion so my brain can imprint those smells and connect them to a picture.

When she reads this she should simply shrug and say “yeah he told me this might happen”