The Flowers that Never Got To Bloom

A woman who loses her husband is called a widow. A man who loses his wife is called a widower. A child who loses his parents is called and orphan. But there is no word for the parent who loses his child. How awful is that. This is the story when hundreds of parents who lost their children, some killed, some left wounded and some disabled for life.
Those children They just went to school but they never came back.