"The teenage soldiers of World War One" Topic
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Tango01 | 02 Feb 2021 9:08 p.m. PST |
"War confers many things on boys who pick up a weapon to fight. They learn the true meaning of fear. They test their own capacity for courage and the limits of human endurance, physical and mental. Some find that killing comes easily to them, too easily. And others recoil from acts of blood. But what unites all teenage warriors is the speed with which they are hurled into a place of maiming and death…" Main page link Amicalement Armand
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Legion 4 | 06 Feb 2021 9:29 a.m. PST |
There probably a number of teenage soldiers and sailors in WWI. They were much less strict about that then. And in many cases in WWII as well. And it goes on in some African, etc. nations to this day. As young as 13 … Which IIRC is against a UN law … |
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