Soldier boys - Lost Childhood
In chapter 8 Dink Meeker says the following:
"I've got a pretty good idea what children are, and we're not children. Children can lose sometimes, and nobody cares. Children aren't in armies, they aren't commanders, they don't rule over forty other kids...."
1. What does this say about children and how does it make you feel?
2. Why do you think the government chooses to use children for this purpose?