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Even in death, these children are used as tools with which to drum up support for the machine of war, and it makes me sick to the stomach.

Well said. There is also the question of whether 18 year old seminary students should be called children. One report I read said that they were attending the religious school prior to military service, so they were hardly children. It is tragic to consider that, had they not been killed, they would have gone on to serve in the army that has killed so many other children, perhaps even doing so themselves.