As a 22-year Army Veteran who served in Operations Desert Storm and Iraqi Freedom, and as a Civilian Advisor to the Afghan Army in Operation Enduring Freedom, I understand both the gravity of giving the order, and the challenge of carrying it out.
The events in our lives happen in a sequence in time, but in their significance to ourselves they find their own order the continuous thread of revelation.
In another situation, and in an active station in life, I should have been keenly occupied, and the founding of an order would have never come into my head.
It is not the cause for which men took up arms that makes a victory more just or less, it is the order that is established when arms have been laid down.