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Dialogue: 0,0:00:00.01,0:00:06.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(the ex-child soldier\Nishmael beah)
Dialogue: 0,0:00:06.26,0:00:08.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Ishamael Beah] And when the war started I was a little boy.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:08.57,0:00:11.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Um... and the war reached my part of the country
Dialogue: 0,0:00:11.05,0:00:13.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it disrupted everything that I knew as a kid.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:14.30,0:00:18.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was separated from my family, running constantly for my life.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:18.06,0:00:21.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,During that time my immediate family was killed in the war,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:21.26,0:00:23.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so my Mother, Father and two brothers were killed.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:23.64,0:00:25.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was the second born in a family of three.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:25.70,0:00:26.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Anderson Cooper] How old were you?
Dialogue: 0,0:00:26.44,0:00:28.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Beah] At this, at this point I was 12 years old, when...
Dialogue: 0,0:00:28.74,0:00:29.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Cooper] 12 years old?
Dialogue: 0,0:00:29.33,0:00:29.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Beah] Yes,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:30.23,0:00:35.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,between 12 and 13 and then I ended up going to a military base actually looking for safety.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:36.15,0:00:40.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it was at this military base, with the Sierra Leone Armed forces, that I was actually forced to be a soldier.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:40.90,0:00:44.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Trained at the age of 13 how to fight in the middle of war.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:45.06,0:00:48.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Trained for a week and then war became my life.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:48.25,0:00:50.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I became a soldier for close to 3 years.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:50.69,0:00:52.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Cooper] For you, what does World Humanitarian Day mean?
Dialogue: 0,0:00:53.60,0:00:59.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Beah] Well, for me it means, I think, its just reaffirming the faith in everyone in the world,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:59.67,0:01:05.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that we have a responsibility to help each other if we live in this world.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:05.32,0:01:08.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We must live our lives for other people not just for ourselves.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:08.78,0:01:10.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The reason why I'm possible,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:10.25,0:01:14.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is because somebody decided one day that they would do something for somebody else.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:14.76,0:01:18.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The UNICEF worker who went to the bush to negotiate with the warlord that they did not like.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:18.95,0:01:21.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The person who worked at the rehabilitation center.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:21.54,0:01:25.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The woman in New York who decided to adopt a former child soldier
Dialogue: 0,0:01:25.10,0:01:27.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who everybody thought was only capable of violence.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:27.32,0:01:32.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So all of these moments when people stop to do something very simple for somebody
Dialogue: 0,0:01:32.54,0:01:34.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,changed my life completely, and made me possible.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:35.36,0:01:39.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So for me this is, this is what I look at this day for.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:39.68,0:01:41.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Cooper] And you're passing it along to others.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:41.06,0:01:43.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Beah] Yes, certainly. [Applause]\N[Cooper] Right, thank you.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:43.41,0:01:48.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(I Was Here - World Humanitarian Day August 19\Nwhd-iwashere.org)