An Honest Marine
December 11, 2018
Writes a Marine:
I served as an infantry officer during the Vietnam conflict. In retrospect, your recent column is absolutely correct. No only did I while “serving” violate every Christian principle I’d been taught, but also, I violated every moral principle I’ve since learned.
Laurence M. Vance [send him mail] writes from central Florida. He is the author of The Free Society; War, Christianity, and the State: Essays on the Follies of Christian Militarism; War, Empire, and the Military: Essays on the Follies of War and U.S. Foreign Policy; King James, His Bible, and Its Translators, and many other books. His newest book is The U.S. Proxy War in Ukraine.
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