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...contrast could not be more marked: The British soldiers in creased, clean uniforms, smile at visitors and turn pink in the midday sun; their Sierra Leonean counterparts sport whatever fatigues are available, and they don't smile too much - but neither would you if you'd just returned from years fighting some of the toughest rebels in the world. And here, at the Benguema training center on the outskirts of the capital, Freetown, the soldiers' chiseled black faces are working up a serious sweat as they train under Britain's watchful...
...Pointing to a diorama he and other Sierra Leonean soldiers have just built, Lt. John Kailie says, "This is a model." Villages are marked with scraps of paper, tracks are marked in chalk, twigs mark a river crossing. Like most of the troops in 5 Platoon, Kailie has only recently returned from three years of fighting rebels in the country's rugged north. Many of the men training today have not seen their families since 1998. They are battle-hardened, although often weakened by poor diet, and are keen to be based closer to home. They are also eager...
...while the Sierra Leonean troops still have much to learn, they also have experience that few British troops will ever know. "You can make plans like this, very beautiful," says Lt. Samuel Farmer, standing over a diorama he has just completed. "But when you are in the field sometimes they go asunder...
...Internet to help those in trouble, TIME has developed opportunities to lend a hand. You can contribute by visiting Netaid.org This is not our first project. In the past two years, TIME readers have saved mothers' lives in Rwanda, found homes for orphans in Africa and helped Sierra Leonean war wounded get medical treatment. If you prefer to send a check, an address is available on the Netaid site. AOL members can go to keyword Breaking the Silence...
What Annan proposes is nothing less than a world filled with dignified people. A world where Sierra Leonean rebels would have enough innate dignity to not chop off the arms of infant girls. A planet where India and Pakistan would be dignified enough not to blow up each other, where the indignities of chemical weapons would be a thing of the past, where the world's rich would be, yes, dignified enough to worry about the millions of Africans who will die of AIDS in the next two decades. This is the kind of world Annan imagines...