Child Soldiers of Disney Imitate America’s Child Infantry in the Forever War

Ellen Beth Gill
6 min readFeb 5, 2022

And no one has a problem with it.

SPOILERS FOR ALL STAR WARS MOVIES AND TELEVISION PROGRAMS AND A LITTLE BIT OF STAR TREK

Luke Skywalker came onto the scene in 1977. He was 19ish when the Empire destroyed his family moisture farm and killed his guardian aunt and uncle. We find out later, that the Empire had previously destroyed the dad and killed his mom, orphaning Luke and Leia, his twin sister. The twins were adopted and raised by people who loved them. They both separately…

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