"Well, as much as I support Israel in this conflict, I oppose what these children are doing. I don't believe children should be involved in this way."
I was born during World War II, so I was too young to participate in the way our neighborhood kids did. They collected papers, collected pots and pans, collected grease, went door to door with war bond fliers and collected pennies for penny drives.
Without a couple of years, some of those kids were Marines, soldiers, sailors and a couple of them were shooting at Nazi fights from B-17 gun positions.
And I think, without exception, they would laugh at you for your stand.
You are darn right, children were a critical part of the industrial labor force in Britain and later Germany and Russia, and lastly Japan. People today think America was terrible for bombing entire cities, but it was a TOTAL WAR in which everyone, and I mean everyone pitched in.
Collecting papers and pennies is a little different that enscribing an artillery shell.