Innocent Voices

I watched this movie (Innocent Voices) based on Oscar Torres' life in El Salvador. It is about the civil war in El Salvador in the early 1980's and a young boy about to turn 12 which is the draft age. 12 years old is the draft age. TWELVE. The war is between the peasants who have an uprising and form a guerrilla army and the El Salvador government. The most dissapointing part is that our U.S. military fueled the war and trained these 12 year olds how to fight. How could this have happened? I was a baby when this was going on so I am not sure how U.S. citizens were re-acting but this is outrageous. How could we as a nation willingly support a governement that is training children how to fight? Who approved this? Those boys should have been playing football or worrying about who has a crush on who, they should have been in school learning math and science not how to shoot a machine gun. What happened there is just unacceptable and I understand we can not control other countries(even though our govn't tries) but we most definately should not be training little boys how to fight or supporting wars that are drafting boys under the age of 18 (I don't even think the draft is ok).
This movie was very eye-opening and very sad but I highly reccommend it. People need to be aware of what is going on outside their little bubble of a world.