!–paging_filter–pEarlier this year, Gunnar Swanson walked 1,000 miles to benefit a cause very close to his heart: children affected by war./p
pSwanson, who served with the North Dakota National Guard in Iraq, was disturbed to witness the tragedy of children caught in a cycle of violence in that country. /p
pHe had always enjoyed interacting with Iraqi kids, but watched in frustration as they were increasingly recruited by insurgent groups to be tools of war./p
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