Life in Poverty

Many years ago a small child was born into a world of famine and violence. His village in central Africa had been victim to civil war and draught for years and there was no end in sight. Unlike most of his brothers and sisters, he made it past infancy and was lucky enough to receive a pitifully inept education by an under funded humanitarian organisation. Every few weeks one of the local children died of …

…obvious choice. It was the most stable work in the area. With seventeen he joined the army and went to four weeks of basic training. He learned how to shoot and how to dig, because that’s what soldiers do. He worked in the administrative wing of the army, never seeing any active service. It seemed for a while that his life might turn out well, after all. The West Point Military Academy is possibly