{"id":6599,"date":"2009-12-21T18:02:09","date_gmt":"2009-12-22T02:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=6599"},"modified":"2009-12-21T18:02:09","modified_gmt":"2009-12-22T02:02:09","slug":"letter-to-a-christian-young-man-regarding-joining-the-military","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/21\/letter-to-a-christian-young-man-regarding-joining-the-military\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter to a Christian Young Man Regarding Joining the Military"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back on February 13, 2009, I wrote a &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lewrockwell.com\/vance\/vance163.html\">Letter to a Christian Young Man Regarding Joining the Military<\/a>.&#8221; At the end of the letter I included this appeal:<\/p>\n<p>If any readers are veterans, consider themselves to be Christians, agree with the sentiments expressed in this letter, and would be willing to let me append their name, branch, and rank to any future use of this letter, please contact me at <a href=\"mailto:lmvance@juno.com\">lmvance@juno.com<\/a>. The fact that you \u00e2\u20ac\u0153served\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and I didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t might be what is needed to help persuade some young man (or woman) to not join the military.<\/p>\n<p>I have now <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vancepublications.com\/letter_to_young_man.htm\">posted this letter on my website<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0with the names of about 40 Christian veterans who contacted me.\u00c2\u00a0If you are a Christian veteran and wish to have your name added, please contact me with your name, branch, and rank and I will add your information right away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back on February 13, 2009, I wrote a &#8220;Letter to a Christian Young Man Regarding Joining the Military.&#8221; At the end of the letter I included this appeal: If any readers are veterans, consider themselves to be Christians, agree with the sentiments expressed in this letter, and would be willing to let me append their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-6599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6599"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6600,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6599\/revisions\/6600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6599"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=6599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}