For Memorial Day, the day America remembers its war dead, Portland author Phil Hoose joins Irwin Gratz to talk about the key roles children played, even in times of war. Hoose says there's a tradition of under-age kids serving in the military that stretches at least as far back as the Civil War:

Maine Author Recounts Stories of Children in Times of War

Phil Hoose is the author of the book "We Were There Too: Young People in American History."

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