You people are obsessed with judging. Don't go so far. Say only that my son broke his legs. No one knows. We only have a fragment.
Life comes in fragments.
It so happened that a few weeks later the country engaged in war against a neighboring country. All the young men of the village were required to join the army. Only the son of the old man was excluded, because he was injured. Once again the people gathered around the old man, crying and screaming because their sons had been taken. There was little chance that they would return.