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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... Quaker college , found Larry a firm peace advocate despite some unease among those around him . However , in 1996 ... ( Quakers ) . Ashton Jones , a Southerner , had total dedication to challeng- ing the war system at home and abroad . He ...
... Quaker Sunday morning worship groups were integrated . We pressed the Catholic priest , a Kentuckian , to in- tegrate his service , but he refused . We next attempted , with Warden Hagerman's agreement , to open the door between upper ...
... Quaker meeting on Sunday , I was asked to say a few part- ing words . It is very hard for someone so close to leaving prison to talk to those who face endless days . Of course , I'd done more time than many , but that did not help . In ...
... Quaker study center near Philadelphia , while I was in training for China . In the meantime , the United States ... Quakers , that I would apply for membership at Germantown Friends Meeting before I left for China . Eleanor and I had ...
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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 |