This project began with the messages you sent to me in April of 2025. Back then, it was your commitment that gave this work its shape. People from different countries, different ages, different lives, all choosing to stop for a moment and write something for children you will never meet. The care you placed into your words gave this project a soul. Every message is an act of courage and a way of saying that the world still has people who stand with Ukraine, even from far away.
This book is dedicated to everyone who lives far from Ukraine yet carries our pain as if it were their own.
To those who cry with us, hope with us, and stand with us, even from distant places. Your hearts have never been far from
this land.
Viktor Krachuk
To the Ukrainians of the Future
We are speaking to someone who will be holding this book in the year 2045. Someone who was not alive when these words were written. Someone living in a Ukraine that exists because people fought for it twenty years before you took your first breath. Not only the people here on this land, but people from all over the world who chose to stand with your country.
The world you know was not guaranteed. The peace you live in was not automatic. Many of us did not know what the years ahead would bring. We did not know what your life would look like, or what kind of country you would inherit.
We only knew that one day a young Ukrainian would open this book and find us here. So this work is dedicated to you.
To the child who grew up in a nation rebuilt by the courage of your parents and grandparents. To the one who needs to understand that your country survived because Ukrainians refused to lose themselves.
And also because people far from here refused to look away. They pressed their governments. They marched in the streets. Not only that, but they placed Ukrainian flags in their windows. They supported Ukrainian writers and artists. They gave to Ukrainian causes they barely knew the names of, but were critical of so many times. Furthermore, they did all this because they felt that your country deserved to live.________ _______________________________________________________________________ I was happy to see my letter included. If you want a copy of the book, go to this URL
David Piekarczyk
