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Cevasco's family sobs as they stare at the flag-draped coffin lowered into the family crypt. Cevasco was the son of a well-known Managua doctor. Although many young men in Nicaragua are drafted, Cevasco had joined because he wanted to serve his…

Comrades and friends of the dead soldier carry his coffin to the burial site.

Always present for the children of Nicaragua are the reminders of their national crisis in its most extreme and personal form, the violent death of friends and relatives. Alvaro Aviles Cevasco was 19, the son of a prominent doctor, and a student at a…

Contra river patrol members carefully eye the shoreline near an area where several Sandinista camps are known to be located. They are on the River San Juan, which is the border between Nicaragua and Costa Rica.

Two Contra soldiers guard the well-hidden camp in Nicaragua as another soldier readies a boat for river patrol.

A youthful Contra fighter stares blankly as he listens to instructions being given the unit by a visiting Contra commander before a patrol.

One of the younger members of the Contra group got stuck with dishwashing duty after the unit had been fed dinner.

Two soldiers wolf down a dinner of bread and beans after returning from the battle front.

Although one Contra soldier plays guitar, others were too bored to sing along during a long break in fighting.

A Contra soldier flirts with Contra camp cook during a break between patrols.