Elder Russell M. Nelson taught: “Members of this Church will be called into military service of many nations… .
“During the Second World War, when members of the Church were forced to fight on opposing sides, the First Presidency affirmed that ‘the state is responsible for the civil control of its citizens or subjects, for their political welfare, and for the carrying forward of political policies, domestic and foreign. … But the Church itself, as such, has no responsibility for these policies, [other] than urging its members fully to render … loyalty to their country’ [in Clark, Messages of the First Presidency, 6:155–56]” (“Blessed Are the Peacemakers,” 40).