Armies That Sent Children Into Battle

[SeaBreeze]

Ten armies that have in the past sent children into battle. http://listverse.com/2015/02/25/10-armies-that-sent-children-into-battle/

 

[Laurie]

Under twelves maybe, but I joined the British forces at the age of 15, and only six weeks after my sixteenth birthday I did time in the cooler, the stockade in US parlance.

What's the big deal?

I knew exactly what I was doing, as did my many contemporaries.

 

[Ralphy1]

What did you do to wind up in the gaol?

 

[Laurie]

I wore my national emblem on my national saint's day.

The English hierarchy didn't like it.

 

[AprilT]

Very sad reading that article as is much of what goes on in life at times then and now.