In Joseph Smith's day the word stripling had a particular meaning when applied to young men. A boy became a stripling at age 12. Also interesting and never talked about is that the young men did not go off to basic training, they went irectly to war. They also took their own weapons with them... and they already knew how to use those weapons...
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Newell FranksMay 13, 2019
In Joseph Smith's day the word stripling had a particular meaning when applied to young men. A boy became a stripling at age 12. Also interesting and never talked about is that the young men did not go off to basic training, they went irectly to war. They also took their own weapons with them... and they already knew how to use those weapons...
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