Because they was a possibility that their family member would not return.
These are mud bricks, thatched with straw, grass, or hay. The dirt bricks are packed tight, then set out in the sun to harden into a brick.
Instituted in the hope of avoiding war, appeasement was the name given to Britain’s policy in the 1930s of allowing Hitler to expand German territory unchecked. Most closely associated with British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, it is now widely discredited as a policy of weakness
Enlightenment thinkers believed that all citizens are born with natural rights