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A lot of child soldiers lose their minds.

Military brats have this toughness: they're almost like orphans or foster children; they develop little mechanisms. It sets you up to look at things a little differently.

I have a tremendous amount of respect for military families. To have to worry about your loved ones and still try and live a normal life is extremely hard.

Children play soldier. That makes sense. But why do soldiers play children?

To be a soldier one needs that special gene, that extra something, that enables a person to jump into one on one combat, something, after all, that is unimaginable to most of us, as we are simply not brave enough.

As a child soldier, your rights are constantly violated.

As a woman, especially when you have children, one gets so good at soldiering on - almost too good.

I've grown up, luckily, with only a distant relationship to war and soldiering.