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The American Revolutionary War was by no means the first or last time that women and children participated (willingly or unwillingly) in a war. It even happens today in the Middle East. But in today's wars, we see this as an abuse of women and children, an outrage that soon gives way to a hatred and distrust of the ones that soldiers at first viewed as victims.

Women and children have always been used because they are the least to arouse suspicion. Just a "dumb girl" or "illiterate boy", children were routinely able to cross enemy lines. A woman with a baby and child or children could rightly claim ignorance and that her only concern was taking care of her children or getting them food, water, or safe lodging. Families could send young boys when a father or older brother was injured; the boy could carry messages to soldiers.

Today, soldiers must make split-second decisions about whether an adult with a child, or a child alone, poses a threat and whether to shoot. Soldiers plenty of times have been right to shoot -- and plenty of times they have been wrong.

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