A Few Small Candles: War Resisters of World War II Tell Their StoriesLarry Gara, Lenna Mae Gara Kent State University Press, 1999 - 207 pages Little is known about those who openly refused to enter military service in World War II because of their convictions against killing. While many of those men accepted alternative civilian service, more than 6,000 were incarcerated with sentences ranging from a few months to five years. Some were tried, convicted, and reimprisoned for essentially the same offense--resisting induction into the armed forces--after their initial release. In A Few Small Candles, ten men tell why they resisted, what happened to them, and how they feel about that experience today. Their stories detail the resisters' struggles against racial segregation in prison, as well as how they instigated work and hunger strikes to demonstrate against other prison injustices. Each of the ten has remained active in various causes relating to peace and social justice. This is a unique collection of memoirs that illuminated the American homefront during World War II and provides an important source for those interested in the American peace movement. |
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... India's Independence Day . Even though they had not yet received their independence , they had proclaimed it thirteen years previously . A group of us , including longtime friend and Antiochian Bill Hef- ner , went to Washington and ...
... India Today for a Free World Tomorrow . " It was against the law in Washington to bring a foreign embassy into " pub- lic odium . " We said , " Where there is empire there is odium . " We were quickly arrested and taken by paddy wagon ...
... India . I shortly received the following reply : " Dear Sir : At a recent meeting of this Board your request for permission to leave this country to join the non - violent army in India has been refused . Yours very truly , F. A. ...
... India . I mention Buddhists , anarchists , and Native Ameri- cans , even though I knew none of them personally . But I read widely , and all the major influences I have listed were broadened and deep- ened by this . DAVID DELLINGER ( b ...
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Contents
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My Resistance to World War II | 38 |
My War and My Peace | 53 |
My War on War | 78 |
War Resistance in World War II | 98 |
Reflections of a Religious War Objector Half a Century Later | 130 |
Prison and Butterfly Wings | 152 |
How the War Changed My Life | 174 |
My Story of World War II | 194 |
Selected Additional Readings | 205 |