Professor William Kaplan, who wrote a book entitled State and Salvation: The Jehovahs Witnesses and Their Fight for Civil Rights, said that the Witnesses were publicly reviled and the object of both state action and private attacks by an intolerant government and an openly hostile citizenry caught up in the passions and patriotism of the war.
ಯಾಕೆಂದರೆ ಅವರು ಧ್ವಜವಂದನೆ ಅಥವಾ ರಾಷ್ಟ್ರ ಗೀತೆಯನ್ನು ಹಾಡುವಂತಹ ದೇಶಭಕ್ತಿಯ ಆರಾಧನಾ ಕ್ರಿಯೆಗಳಲ್ಲಿ ಒಳಗೂಡುತ್ತಿರಲಿಲ್ಲ.