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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... active nonviolence become more visible as an important part of U.S. history . The Kent State University Press KENT , OHIO 44242 small & candles : lenna a mae War resisters of. LARRY GARA , a historian , teacher , and Front Cover.
... becoming executive secretary in 1969. He has traveled widely as consultant , lecturer , and writer . With his wife , Harriet Warner , he now lives in North Carolina and Maine . Photo courtesy of the Antiochiana Collection , Antioch ...
... become aware that the American Friends Service Committee was part of the British Friends Ambulance Unit , China Convoy , and that a number of American COs were already at work there . After Elea- nor and I thought it over , I applied ...
... in business and for the American Friends Service Committee , becoming executive secretary in 1969. Eleanor died in 1987 , and in 1989 I married Harriet Warner . David Dellinger Why I Refused to Register in the October PRISON MEMOIR 19.
... become an objector to World War II long before the United States officially entered . First , I was influenced by my exposure to the lies and failures of World War I and the examples of persons who fought in that war or went to prison ...
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 |