One disillusioned US official says, according to NBC News, that he is «hopeful many fighters are not ideological and will eventually lay down their arms and «find a reason to identify with Afghanistan nationalism and the larger good.»» (businessinsider.com)
To see so many Jesuits and Catholic priests taking up arms and pledging that they will not lay down arms, until justice is done invokes an inward struggle within me. (religion-online.org)
In the midst of war, soldiers laid down their arms to sing Christmas carols, play soccer, and barter with the cigarettes and sweets they'd received in care packages from the nations they served. (businessinsider.com)