Being a soldier's daughter, I understand that what they are doing is the real deal. But me giving statement on the issue is of no significance.
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Soldiering is a very important profession, is it not?
It's one thing to say you're for the war; it's another thing to send your kid to war - your daughter or your son.
More and more, we have been able to present the argument that recruitment of child soldiers is a social breakdown that leads to atrocities, because that's why they get them.
A lot of child soldiers lose their minds.
Any child soldier has to go through a lot of love, care and understanding to become normal.
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.
Soldiers, when committed to a task, can't compromise. It's unrelenting devotion to the standards of duty and courage, absolute loyalty to others, not letting the task go until it's been done.
As far as this citizen is concerned, the decision to commit men and women, who are also sons and daughters, to combat is an extraordinarily important one, and not to be done to just feel good; to be done to absolutely accomplish a mission.
Children play soldier. That makes sense. But why do soldiers play children?
There's no pride in having been a child soldier.
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