The boys meet a man named Gasemu that they recognize from home. He explains that Ishmael's parents are just over the next hill. The group run to the top of the hill to see smoke and gunshots. The army has gotten to the village first. They go to where his parents were living and look at the ruins. He knows there's no chance they survived. Ishmael starts to get nightmares.They seek help in the town of Yele where military headquarters are. Any boys ranging from seven to seventeen are immediately handed a gun and start training to be a soldier. If you refuse they kill you on sight. He had his first battle and watched an eleven year old die. He focused all his rage into the gun and killed as many people as he could.
After two years of this, Ishmael and a few other boys are picked up by a UNICEF workers and taken to a rehabilitation camp. There are boys from both sides of the war that are trying to get back to normal. The theory of the camp, as Ishmael explains, is that with the fighting and violence out, they could all merge together as one team. However, fighting breaks out from both sides and a grenade is thrown. By the end six boys are dead.
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