For you and I it becomes an outrage, unacceptable by our means but for them it is a daily task they must achieve in order to survive. Blood, rage, anguish, torture, rape and madness are all met on the battlefield. Children! Little, innocent children, as young as six, experience the pain of the battlefield. These infants constitute half of the country's army in places such as Afghanistan and Mozambique. I have the firm and rooted belief that this situation, putting it mildly, should be eradicated form the face of the earth for good. Children are used illegally and shouldn't have to experience war at such an early age. To prove my point I will demonstrate the emotional and physical side effects and what their lives and future have in store for those young kids who choose or are forced to be in a war. .
My first point: their lives and future. They have their lives ahead of them; more than 70 years and what does the army do to those unfortunate souls? It deprives them of a one-chance-in-a-lifetime childhood, their innocence, and their purity. Imagine you are a child of 8 or so. All you dream about is having fun, ice cream, fishing, going to the playground, climbing a tree and witnessing the infinite blue sky. You are left with nothing as the army recruits you in.
"When Thomas went to war he was eleven and the Kalashnikov he was given to carry and use was bigger than he was. To prove his worthiness he had to execute a man captured from the other side.".
Kids have lost the once chance to have a childhood with no worries, which is one of the many reasons why the government should prevent this loss from happening. Their education is jeopardized. Whole schools are taken over, destroyed or mined. The children can't even get near them. Deprived of knowledge, their will mindlessly roam the rest the of their lives with hopes pulverized to dust. That is why they have no choices but to go into jobs like prostitution, selling drugs, smuggling and other illegal trades.