still dream about the boy from my village who I killed. I see him in my dreams, and he is talking to me, saying I killed him for nothing, and I am crying." — Mary, a 16-year-old demobilized child soldier forced to join an armed rebel group in Central Africa
Johnny Mad Dog,
I am having a hard time reading this book and let alone the facts of a child soldier. I still can't understand why? I know the speaker touched on it because children are easy to manipulate. People do so much to children it is breaking my heart.
I was reading some information on child soldiers. One article I read on the Internet it said that they will make the young girls marry and or perform sexual acts on the men. Then while reading the book the graphic description of sexual acts makes me sick.
I can't take the heartless acts of violence that these children are faced to do. I remember in class on Tuesday someone made a comment almost like a gang. It made me think of these gangs in America let alone Michigan that are recruiting these Young boys to do some heartless acts of violence.
The gang as and he child soldiers have alot in common. These soldiers make these young men that they are family and the gangs the same way. They terrorized individuals for their own gains. Both are selfish.
This book is gut wrenching and having a daughter and nephews the same age as the young men on the book it is hard for me to read the book.
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I made the same comment that the rebel groups in Africa have taken the American idea of gangs and perfected it. Here our gangs recruit younger members, but not 9 year olds. They have them perform heartless acts, but never killing innocent people, its usually rival gangs or someone who has offended their gang. They both give guns to their "soldiers" and ruin their lives for them. its so sad.
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