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Terrifying. But like you said, basically kids during the war forced to do a lot of things most modern day guys could never even imagine.

by sekasi 13y ago

gedrap 13y ago
>>> most modern day guys could never even imagine. Oh no need for that. Grab a local news paper, check the crime section. 'modern day guys' are not so smart and innocent, are they?
- 1ris 13y ago
  My gradma digged trenches and stacked bodies, at the age of 14 or 15. Modern day guies don't do that, or something similar. War time is dramatical different.
  - angersock 13y ago
    Eh, go look at footage out of Syria or parts of Africa--it's more a comment on the state of the civilizations going to war.
  - MarkTee 13y ago
    Maybe in the Western World. Right now there are thousands of child soldiers around the world doing things much worse than digging trenches. There are also a number of armed conflicts that are currently ongoing (although they aren't anywhere near the scale of something like WWII).
  - lostlogin 13y ago
    I'm not so sure. I can remember the feeling I got when the news during the Iraq war showed a couple of kids laughing like it was a big joke and listening to Metallica as they shelled Fallujah. In the US 40% of active duty members are less than 25 according. Humans have a long history of getting their young ones to do their dirty work. http://www.militaryonesource.mil/12038/MOS/Reports/2011_Demographics_Report.pdf http://www.militaryonesource.mil/12038/MOS/Reports/2011_Demo...
dbs 13y ago
I'm pretty sure some modern guys are already planning to do it again in the Mediterranean http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/she-the-people/wp/2014/03/23/in-greece-uproar-over-plan-to-dispose-of-syrian-chemical-weapons-in-the-mediterranean/ http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/she-the-people/wp/2014/0...
- caf 13y ago
  Well, no. They're not just dumping anything over the side - they're using a mobile chemical reactor called the Field-Deployable Hydrolysis System to break the chemical weapons agents down into far less nasty, but still quite toxic, waste. Which isn't being dumped over the side, either. See here for some technical comment on the FDHS: http://guests.armscontrolwonk.com/archive/4158/cw-destruction http://guests.armscontrolwonk.com/archive/4158/cw-destructio...

Terrifying. But like you said, basically kids during the war forced to do a lot of things most modern day guys could never even imagine.

by sekasi 13y ago

Terrifying. But like you said, basically kids during the war forced to do a lot of things most modern day guys could never even imagine.

gedrap 13y ago

>>> most modern day guys could never even imagine. Oh no need for that. Grab a local news paper, check the crime section. 'modern day guys' are not so smart and innocent, are they?

1ris 13y ago
My gradma digged trenches and stacked bodies, at the age of 14 or 15. Modern day guies don't do that, or something similar. War time is dramatical different.
- angersock 13y ago
  Eh, go look at footage out of Syria or parts of Africa--it's more a comment on the state of the civilizations going to war.
- MarkTee 13y ago
  Maybe in the Western World. Right now there are thousands of child soldiers around the world doing things much worse than digging trenches. There are also a number of armed conflicts that are currently ongoing (although they aren't anywhere near the scale of something like WWII).
- lostlogin 13y ago
  I'm not so sure. I can remember the feeling I got when the news during the Iraq war showed a couple of kids laughing like it was a big joke and listening to Metallica as they shelled Fallujah. In the US 40% of active duty members are less than 25 according. Humans have a long history of getting their young ones to do their dirty work. http://www.militaryonesource.mil/12038/MOS/Reports/2011_Demographics_Report.pdf http://www.militaryonesource.mil/12038/MOS/Reports/2011_Demo...

dbs 13y ago

I'm pretty sure some modern guys are already planning to do it again in the Mediterranean http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/she-the-people/wp/2014/03/23/in-greece-uproar-over-plan-to-dispose-of-syrian-chemical-weapons-in-the-mediterranean/ http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/she-the-people/wp/2014/0...

caf 13y ago
Well, no. They're not just dumping anything over the side - they're using a mobile chemical reactor called the Field-Deployable Hydrolysis System to break the chemical weapons agents down into far less nasty, but still quite toxic, waste. Which isn't being dumped over the side, either. See here for some technical comment on the FDHS: http://guests.armscontrolwonk.com/archive/4158/cw-destruction http://guests.armscontrolwonk.com/archive/4158/cw-destructio...