This is a book about faith and moral issues facing American troops and veterans. As someone who spent four years wearing a U.S. army uniform, Edgar S. Welty has plenty of ‘soldier stories.’ But he does not start this book with those stories.
Instead, Welty introduces his work with the telling of Simon’s service when he carried the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ. He argues that ‘service’ is the same as Jesus’s call to ‘go an ‘extra’ or ‘second’ mile.’ Americans are called by Jesus to walk a ‘second mile’ for American troops and veterans. This act of service is necessary because many troops are in trouble, as is demonstrated by suicide rates. Each section of this book focuses on a new issue surrounding troops and veterans.
About the author
Uwe Siemon-Netto, born 1936 in Leipzig, Germany, is the founder and director emeritus of the Center for Lutheran Theology and Public Life/League of Faithful Masks in Capistrano Beach, CA. Siemon-Netto has been an international journalist for fifty-eight years. He earned his Ph D from Boston University and is the author of eight books, including The Fabricated Luther: Refuting Nazi Connections and Other Modern Myths (1993, 2007), The Acquittal of God: A Theology for Vietnam Veterans (1990), and Triumph of the Absurd: A Reporter’s Love for the Abandoned People of Vietnam (2015).
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