Post by International Committee of the Red Cross - ICRC

On 24 June 1859, Henry Dunant witnessed the horrors of the Battle of Solferino in Italy. Thousands of wounded soldiers were left without adequate care. Dunant helped organize relief for them and later wrote "A Memory of Solferino", calling for better care for wounded soldiers and national relief societies to support military medical services in wartime. In 1863, he became one of the five members of the committee that would later become the ICRC. More than 160 years later, Solferino still reminds us: even in war, humanity must be protected. You can read A Memory of Solferino here: http://ms.spr.ly/6047voUrf