You know how often when there are scary, sad, hopeless situations we look away? Well please don't. The world is ours and hopefully our generation will take a different approach to war. The toll is too high to go on the way we're going. This article is so sad, all these kids just want to get the hell out of there, they're watching their friends die and live in constant fear that they will be the next. Many of these soldiers are just kids and they're going to have to deal with the psychological repreccusions of war for the rest of their lives.
"You ask a 17-year-old kid to hand out blankets one day and then, you know, a couple of hours later, his buddy's guts are strewn all over the place, and a couple hours later, he's got to go back and hand out blankets again. Like, I think that's what's going to take the real psychological toll on these guys," says Staff Sgt. Matthew Sanders.
Please go to the link and look at the beautiful yet horrifying slideshow of the war in Afghanistan.
Courtesy of NPR
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