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Thanks, but it's kind of sad to think that where we are now is really much closer to 1861 than most realize.

Still, in the end it doesn't affect our duty. As good line from a great movie put it "What we do here today echoes through eternity."

And if I should be made to pay the supreme price, then I will know that I will not endure more than my father's generation, my grandparent's generation or my great-grandparents generation endured from WWI, WWII and Algeria. In the end, either (a) I will be nothing (in which case I have nothing to fear); or, (b) as my faith teaches me, I may be received by the eternal love of my Redeemer, and re-join the family members I have already lost.

So I will hope for the best, prepare as best I can for the worst, and fear not.