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The highest level of deaths on the battlefield was recorded between 1998 and 2001, with about 80,000 soldiers, policemen and rebels killed every year.
It often takes a generation to accomplish, but it also requires us, today's generation, to take responsibility and to learn the right lessons about leadership, diplomacy and institutional design, so that the child soldiers of today can become the children of tomorrow.
A Palestinian woman once told me, "It is not about the fear of one death," she said, "sometimes I feel I die 10 times in one day," as she was describing the marches of soldiers and the sounds of their bullets.
Many women were taken as slaves by rebels and soldiers, as sexual slaves who were forced also to carry the ammunition and the water and the food for the soldiers.
The fort in San Francisco at the time had about 1,300 soldiers.
And one of the soldiers wrote home, and this is the sentence that he put: "The struggle between right and six dollars a month and wrong and 75 dollars a day is a rather severe one."
On this bridge that's in Monrovia, ex-rebel soldiers helped us pasting a portrait of a woman that might have been raped during the war.
One of my colleagues at the Times did a great story about soldiers in Iraq who could look down a street and detect somehow whether there was an IED, a landmine, in the street.
And I was raised to believe that soldiers were strong and wise and brave and faithful; they didn't lie, cheat, steal or abandon their comrades.
Can you imagine walking out of this building and seeing a tank sitting out there, or a truck full of soldiers?
And you're thinking, "My God, if this guy is saying that, then all the soldiers must be saying that."
They're training their little kids to be soldiers for Jesus.
And the soldiers are Chinese, and everybody else is Chinese.
It's an American, American soldiers, American woman who lost her loved one in the Middle East, in Iraq or Afghanistan.
They were caught by the American soldiers, trying to kill Americans.
Now, we've heard, of course, that we're all soldiers here.
The average British soldier is on a tour of only six months; Italian soldiers, on tours of four months; the American military, on tours of 12 months.
I heard about a little girl who couldn't stop peeing on herself because so many grown soldiers had shoved themselves inside her.
I heard an 80-year-old woman whose legs were broken and pulled out of her sockets and twisted up on her head as the soldiers raped her like that.
Think of medical professionals or firefighters or soldiers or marines.
Or soldiers and marines while they're deploying.
The challenge I face when I hear this question is that often I have just returned from the Middle East where I spent my time filming dozens of Palestinians who are using nonviolence to defend their lands and water resources from Israeli soldiers and settlers.
Woman: We saw the men trying to push the soldiers, but none of them could do that.
We were going to plan an event called the Rescue of Joseph Kony's Child Soldiers where participants would come in a hundred cities worldwide and rally in their city center until a celebrity or a political figure came and used their voice on behalf of these child soldiers, and at that point each city was "rescued."
Now it's down to 500 standing strong so that you can raise the profile of this issue and we can end the longest-running war in Africa and rescue those kids that are child soldiers still in East Africa.
You know, for me, what kept me pushing on through the rescue was the thought of those child soldiers.
Are they the guys with the AK-47s or the boy soldiers?
And the poem goes: "On the idle hill of summer, lazy with the flow of streams, hark I hear a distant drummer, drumming like a sound in dreams, far and near and low and louder on the roads of earth go by, dear to friend and food to powder, soldiers marching, soon to die."
It's no longer the case that the security of a country is simply a matter for its soldiers and its ministry of defense.
It means soldiers are not needed to patrol our streets.
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