Mormon 2
One major reason that Mormon had a glimmer of hope was that he had no perspective then of what a less degraded society looked like to know how truly far his people had gone on the path to annihilation. By the time he took the plates at age 24 he had already been leading the armies of a frightened and broken people for nearly a decade. Actually I’m not sure if he was able to retrieve the plates until he was near their hiding spot at the age of 35 at which point he would have been leading those armies of wicked cowards for more than half his life. I guess “wicked cowards” is not a generous assessment but it sounds like his men were prone to running from their own defense more often than not no matter how much he prepared them nor whether he commanded them to stand firm.
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