Elaine Langerman
Washington DC
Book #13: Child Soldiers
This book, a departure from my other, more lighthearted books, was created in response to a request from an art dealer who wished to put together a book exhibit about war. At that time, there was a former child soldier coming forward detailing his history and how he escaped and was rehabilitated. For me, childhood innocence, the pure state we were all born into, is a very precious state, and those who violate it are, to put it mildly, very, very difficult to understand and to have compassion for. Their crime, I believe, is especially heinous. So this became the subject of my book about war. I feel that in acknowledging the plight of these suffering children, I myself become more aware of these horrors, and perhaps others will too, so that they may be eased. |
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