A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier

Ishmael Beah, author of A Long Way Gone Memoirs of a Boy Soldier

At age 12 he was a normal, music-loving boy. Two years later he was a bitter war veteran who had killed more people than he could count. Ishmael Beah was also one of more than 300,000 child soldiers worldwide who have been forced into the world's most savage wars. In this program Beah describes his ordeal and the rehabilitation that saved his life.