Set in the mid 1980s El Salvador, in the midst of the countrys civil war, a young boy must decide between enlisting in the army or join up with guerrillas.

故事背景是80年代中期的中美洲国家萨尔瓦多，当时国家处于内战，一个年轻男孩必须在从军，或参加游击队之间做出决定。

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Native Californian Duncan Hunter was born in 1948 and briefly attended college before enlisting in the Army and serving in Vietnam.

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But for the legal sort, the signs of mobility and assimilation are everywhere not assimilation as in becoming the same as everyone else, but assimilation as in becoming citizens, taking part in politics, enlisting in the army, paying taxes and speaking English.

ECONOMIST: The Americano dream