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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... judge at another courthouse , where it was noted that I had refused to report to Civilian Public Ser- vice at Big Flats , New York . This was a violation of the Selective Training and Service Act of 1941 , and bond was set at two ...
... judge gave a nod to Thomas . ( Later on , William Thomas became a federal judge . Over the years I used to pass him walking in Cleveland , and he would say , " Bronson , you are the only case I ever lost . " ) I spent three weeks in the ...
... Judge Huddleston , the considerably overweight former treasurer of Ken- tucky who was serving time for IRS delinquencies . When Bayard entered the recreation room , fellow COs surrounded him . Huddle- ston suddenly stood up , grabbed a ...
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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 |