Stewardship in the Modern World

In last month’s column I addressed the concept of stewardship. I applied this concept to the emotions of my father and his fellow pilot cadets in World War II, which I found in dad’s letters home during the war. The word “stewardship” is defined in the Oxford dictionary as “the job of supervising or taking care of something.” For my father and his fellow pilots in training that “something” was their country and a way of life that they felt would be destroyed if they did not personally intervene.