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Considering that those kids were carrying bombs...a war lives little choice - it's either them or you and your allies..and then there are orders too. In fact if you read the book, he had to radio in every single suspicious activity and receive a permission to engage. At the end if each day he had to fill out the log of all his kills and surrounding circumstances.

It's completely normal where I am from. In fact I see a lot if Russian families in America do that.