Background information about the poem: Children in the Darkness

The poem Childeren in the Darkness by Henry M Bechtold is talking about the children which are captured during the war and are forced to learn how to fight instead of learnikng things that are thought in school, so they could become soldiers i n the future. Theses children were held captive in places that are very dark and these children could not escape at all. These children are not given a chance, they could not read and they could not dance. Their lives will be destroyed in the war suffering very terribly.