Do We Know How to Sacrifice?

We become acquainted with the sacrifices of our parents through their stories, and each generation seems to redefine the concept. My parents were born between 1901 and 1925, the “Greatest Generation”.1 They had survived the Great Depression and the Nazi occupation of their country, the Netherlands, in large part by inestimable sacrifice. During the famine that spanned the harsh winter of 1944–1945, my mother and her sister walked with an empty baby carriage some 90 ki lometers to a farm where they filled the carriage up with food for their family and then walked home again.
Source: The Journal for Nurse Practitioners - Category: Nursing Authors: Tags: Point/Counterpoint Source Type: research