Mother with her dead son...A morbid anniversary

Mother with her dead son...A morbid anniversary

We are going through a morbid anniversary these days.
100 years have passed since the declaration of First World War that proved the most stupid, useless and entirely unjustified human sacrifice in world's history with more than seven million soldiers dead in the miserable and rat filled trenches, most of them youngsters that, according to their senseless superiors, shouldn't have anything else in mind but blindly obey to orders that had to bring into completion. Virtually, there was no home without mourning a beloved in the bloodshed battlefields...
I selected to present this dull but so eloquant monument of mother and her dead son, at the heart of Berlin, because I beleive that it's heartbreaking symbolism can serve not only to commemorate all those unknown victims of war but also, what is more important, as a strong and eternal reminder of universal fraternity so much missing in our time...