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From a letter home from the Pacific from a World War II combat chaplain who was a strong pacifist and mild socialist before the war:

While I believe in all my heart that freedom, decency, and brotherhood are not secured through war, I do believe that their destruction mat be averted by opposing force with force.

I fine distinction, but an important and amazing concession from an author who knew the importance of finding meaning in why men must sometimes fight.

Part of a remarkable note in Russell Cartwright Stoup, Letters from the Pacific, 69-72.