For the most part, the returning soldiers were welcomed home warmly.
At one point they interview a soldier recovering from amnesia.
[external_link_head]The civilian was compared unfavourably to the soldier who was thought to be disciplined and trained in stress management.
This would allow the differentiation between an individual that can develop into a soldier or an ergatoid.
The commander, after widespread pressure from the other soldiers, decided to fulfil the requests and ordered an excavation to be carried out.
[external_link offset=1]They were considered responsible, easy to civilise, and to train as soldiers through education.
But such organized resistance was rare, and once called up, few soldiers dodged conscription and even fewer deserted.
Others found work as foot soldiers in the private armies of wealthy notables or as independent bandits.
But it is important to recognise these broad distinctions because they are relevant in determining the kind of social reintegration programmes developed for ex-child soldiers.
Furthermore, the civil war peace settlements have shown a markedly lukewarm approach to the rehabilitation and reintegration of former child soldiers.
For the common soldier these could be no less deadly.
[external_link offset=2]At this time, the needs of disabled soldiers were dealt with directly by the army.
However, the nomadic pastoral zones and their people could never be completely 'tamed' or made gentlemen soldiers until the 1850s.
Nowhere else did conquest involve so many soldiers, require so many engagements, or proceed with such destruction.
Married women classified as ' poor ' were often soldiers' wives.
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