In what industry are both white collar and blue collar managers and leaders trained for each level of promotion? In the military. In the military services, NCO’s and officers receive training for each level of promotion. For decades, the U.S. military has required attendance and graduation from schools designed to train leaders at every rank.
There is a song about a Scottish soldier who perished during WW I in the trenches. It goes like this (with English translation):
Lay me down in the cold, cold ground
Where before many more have gone
Thoughts of home take away my fear
Sweat and blood hide my veil of tears
Once a year
I served in Iraq for a year and devoted 28 years of my life (mostly part-time as a Reservist) to the military. So, seeing signs like "Thank God for Dead Soldiers" at a funeral for a dead soldier angers me beyond belief. See news report. I cannot understand a church that openly, proudly protests