Why is it important to answer the call of duty to serve your country?

Thomas R. Valletta

“I have worn the uniform of my native land in the time of total conflict. I have smelled the stench of human dead and wept tears for slaughtered comrades. I have climbed amid the rubble of ravaged cities and contemplated in horror the ashes of a civilization sacrificed to Moloch (Amos 5:26); yet knowing this, with the issues as they are, were I called again to military service, I could not conscientiously object!

“To you who have answered that call, we say: Serve honorably and well. Keep your faith, your character, your virtue” (Packer, in Conference Report, Apr. 1968, 36).

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