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You are 10. You are living in Afghanistan. You are carrying a loaded gun. 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,