Former child soldier haunted by past
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The nightmares won't stop. In one, fighters chase him with a gun. In another, he watches a person get mutilated. In a third, someone is hacking his neck with a machete. Yet, years after he left the life of a child soldier in Sierra Leone, Ishmael Beah has found a reason for hope in his vivid nocturnal visions: He never dies.
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Wandering among soldiers, cleaning guns and boiling tea, Khalid looks like he ought to be in a playground. He claims to be 15, but is closer to 10, and ran away from his mother to join the rebel Sudan Liberation Army.
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You'd think the details would be scorched into a veteran's memory like a cattle brand: ducking gunfire, seeing someone die in battle, bracing against a blast's concussion. Who could forget?
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A TIME correspondent recalls his strange encounter with Carlos Casta&#241;o, the former death-squad commander whose remains were finally identified last week
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Lyndon K. Wilson still bears the scars of shrapnel wounds he suffered as a marine in Vietnam 36 years ago when an enemy mortar round hit as he skirted a rice paddy.
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A new documentary about Abu Ghraib reopens a particularly painful Iraq war wound.
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Four decades after he vanished into North Korea, a soldier pleaded guilty Wednesday to abandoning his Army unit in 1965, tearfully recounting his fears of death and the depression he said drove him to defect.
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A former Special Forces soldier has created a loyal following on the Web with his accounts of frontline  soldiersâ daily work in Iraq.
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FORT HOOD, Texas -- Sergeant Javal Davis doesn't have to serve much prison time for abusing detainees at Abu Ghraib in late 2003, but once his incarceration is over, so is his prized career as a soldier.
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A Kurdish villager testified Monday that he left behind his mother and two sisters as he fled a 1988 attack by Saddam Hussein's forces. Years later, he said, he found his relatives' identity cards in a mass grave.
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For veterans of Ramadi, it seems like a different place and a different war.
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As the outer layers of her old, familiar life have been peeled back to expose violence, a young Iraqi girl is no longer sure whom to believe, how to interpret events or even what to be afraid of.
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Try as you like, it's hard to erase traces of a traumatic past.
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Three years on, experts and participants are looking back to try and glean the war's lessons.
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Thousands follow a long-dead soldier's fate as a descendant posts a series of real letters home.
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The case of the youngest detainee at GuantÃ¡namo Bay has implications as large as the growing ranks of child soldiers worldwide.
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Those words evoke powerful emotions for combat veterans of the Vietnam War three decades after they served in a military conflict many believe was undone by politicians and an increasingly disapproving public.