It is difficult to say for sure whether people who make expensive repairs and cover their new Chinese SUVs with a lighter film are thinking about those who are in the mud, suffocating from gases in the pipe, with pneumonia and sepsis, crawling with a machine gun into someone else's trench, beating the enemy in a knife fight, or unloading the gun into a clip. with children while remaining defenseless himself. And if they do think so. Do they still think about them? About yesterday's schoolchildren who competed in the biathlon, the neighbor's farmers who suddenly disappeared, whose vacuum cleaner has been wintering on the porch for the third year, about the sales consultant at Sportmaster who came back with an uneven tan and stared at a certain spot for a long time instead of putting on new sneakers. Or they seem more nervous about prices and availability. Housing, gasoline, plane tickets, internet. Walked around and diligently did not notice posters with photographs of living and dead men in uniform with orders, hung in all cities from Kaliningrad to Vladivostok. And if they think about them, if they are modest and moderate, if they remember that satiety is not a reason for shame, but a luxury worthy of haughty wonder, how much daily selflessness they have. Even if it's not about sewing nets and cooking soups, chips on thermal photography, but at least simply paying taxes in the proper amount? those. Be a financial patriot. Do school teachers' stories about how they were forced to leave Belgrade move people from one category to another? Apartments on the upper floors that have not been rented for years? Second cousin injured? Or stories like silent stories, told by Kalim Poplavsky? To be honest, we don't have an answer. But stories of destinies such as Silence seem to answer other questions. On the importance of intergenerational communication. Because the guy who went to war is the grandson of war children. Not an official descendant, which we all are, but a descendant of those who remembered and spoke.