John quoted The Little Virtues by Natalia Ginzburg
"As far as the education of children is concerned," states Natalia Ginzburg in this collection …
There has been a war and people have seen so many homes reduced to rubble that they no longer feel safe in their own homes which once seemed so quiet and secure. This is something that is incurable and will never be cured no matter how many years go by. True we have a lamp on the table again, and a little vase of flowers, and pictures of our loved ones, but we can no longer trust any of these things because once, suddenly, we had to leave them behind, or because we have searched through the rubble for them in vain.
— The Little Virtues by Natalia Ginzburg, Dick Davis (Page 49)
Although this was written in Turin, in 1946, ordinary people in many places, are still having their homes reduced to rubble, or having to flee the place where they have made their home