Fleeing the Childrens Crusade

I hope this story gets a rating of 18 or over. It is a very controversial and true to life experience of war from a young boy soldier's perspective. Although it is very graphic, it shows war in its true place and goes into subjects that writers have yet to dwelve upon, the hate children have for their parents for sending them into adulthood. This story is one of a kind, and I hope adult and young adults seek for its actual meaning instead of putting it down for its graphic depiction of little boys fighting a lost war.

Currently I am twenty years old and a soldier fighting for the United States Army. This story is greatly based on my true conflicts on becoming an adult. The soldiers in the story disagree with the troubles that adulthood brings to them, so they flee away from their present predicament. As soldiers in a doomed army, they try to escape manhood and death. But what they don't realize is that they can never escape maturity, even by running away from their problems. It catches up to them, and they must accept being alone. As you have read in the first chapter, Otto does not believe in love because he does not understand why boy must become man and why dreams sometimes never come to light. The reader does not see the true realization of this until further in the novel when Otto begins to love his friend Hermann as another brother. Later in thier escape, Otto and Hermann befriend a Jewish boy around their age who has fled the camps, and after they have nursed him to health they continue their crusade in trying to get captured by the advancing Americans on the western front who are merciful to surrendered soldiers. This story, even though it may take time to edit, may be worth all my efforts.