I thought it was unfair to ask school kids to integrate first. The parents should lead the way, not send out the children as advance troops.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The constant movement of a military life can be tough on children. My father was an officer in the army, and I was forced to change elementary schools six times.
Some parents do not send their children to school because they don't know its importance at all.
Sending our youth to war is wrong.
I think it's very uncomfortable for people to talk to children about war, and so they don't because it's easier not to. But then you have young people at eighteen who are enlisting in the army, and they really don't have the slightest idea what they're getting into.
I can't say that dropping out of school at 16 to join the Marines was my best idea. On the other hand, maybe it was. Who knows?
As a child soldier, your rights are constantly violated.
I do not believe that the children of presidents or vice-presidents should be assigned to combat zones. They have no place there.
I've come to admire our military kids more than you all will know, because you guys are heroes. And the only way your parents are able to serve is because you guys hold it down, and you do it with maturity beyond your years.
A lot of child soldiers lose their minds.
I think we put our children at an enormous disadvantage by not educating them in war, by not letting them understand about it at an early age.