When I was a boy in sunday school, we were learning the commandments.  When we went over the one "thou shalt not kill" I asked a question.   I asked if it was a Sin to kill in war.  My teacher told me something along the lines that its also a sin not to do ones duty and fight for country.  

I scratched my head on that one.  I had read nothing about country and doing the bidding of man in the bible.  i was like 10 or so, but even then i knew the truth.  War is killing and killing is a sin.  

Today I know that my teacher was some how brainwashed out of the truth.  That something about country and patriotism was some how more important than a religion she not only professed to believe but was volunteering to teach.  

To this day i wonder why she couldn't just say that killing is killing and that killing in war is wrong.