When I was about five years old I had finally met my grandfather he was nice and sweet man but he suffered from PTSD. The first thing he told me was that war caused many terrible things and that if i ever had dreams to go into the army to never go or i'll end up like he did. Unfortunately i did want to go to the army since my cousin did but after that day he changed my mind forever. This relates to the claim that war causes negative things. One reason would be that the fact that it lead to children having to fight at a young age and the second reason would be that it lead to many fatalities and groups turning on eachother. But on a side note the reasons for these were because of obligation and necessities. Starting off with the first reason for the claim war leads to negative things that children had to fight at a young age is supported when “Armed and Underage” By Jeffrey Gettleman states, …show more content…
In Afghanistan, there have been reports of children being used as soldiers or suicide bombers by the Taliban and other insurgents. And in the Middle East, Palestinian children in the West Bank and Gaza have been sent into Israel as suicide bombers.”. This shows the children’s jobs in the different places around the world.This supports the claim that war leads to negative effects because this is showing that the children who are young are having to do jobs that soldiers should be doing but instead they are being suicide bombers and basically risking their life when other oder soldiers should be doing that instead of them. In addition the second example is when Gettleman states,”But 12-year-old Awil is different in two ways: He is shouldering an automatic, fully loaded rifle; and he is working for a military that is substantially armed and