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please welcome ishmael beah. >> thank you for coming on.ll right, all right, may i call you ishmael. >> yes. >> thank you very much. >> thank you very much. now you from age 13 to 16 were a child soldier, correct? >> yes, i was. >> okay, we're up against letterman and conan so, any funny stories. >> there are plenty of funny stores. >> really? >> people may not really understand. >> is there any way to keep this light? >> there could be some ways. >> okay. >> could be some ways. >> how does one become a child soldier at age 13? >> well, in my country you had a civil war that started when i was 11. >> okay. >> sierra leone. >> i didn't know it was a country. >> most people don't. >> it sounded like a station wagon. >> we became really, really famous because of the war that we had right after that. we did not know that they were there. >> what does it mean to be a child soldier. is there an organized child militia or is it more like guerrilla group. >> no, what happens is that when there is a war in the country, at some point the government a

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