It's good to know how to shoot

I heard a story in a taped Talmud class - I believe from R. Fishel Schachter - about a boy who is facing the draft board in Europe in the early part of the 20th century. In those days in Europe, being drafted to the army was usually the end of one's Judaism - if not the end of his life - and so the father took the boy to the Chafetz Chaim (pictured, top left), Rabbi Yisrael Meir Kagan zt"l, the