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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... Later ) GEORGE M. HOUSER 130 8. Prison and Butterfly Wings WILLIAM P. ROBERTS , JR . 152 9. How the War Changed My Life LAWRENCE TEMPLIN 174 10. My Story of World War II GEORGE YAMADA Selected Additional Readings 194 205 Preface THE ...
... later concluded they could no longer accept conscription and walked out of camp . And some men openly refused to register . About a third of those imprisoned as objectors were Jehovah's Witnesses , who claimed and were denied ...
... later made important contributions to their chosen profes- sions , during wartime they served as symbolic candles in a world of darkness , keeping alive a belief in nonviolence when most of the world had descended into a maelstrom of ...
... later never granted CO status to anybody , I wanted to establish that I was a CO first for future treatment within the prison and parole system . As I prepared my co Form 47 , I added a copy of " Antioch Notes , " written during Arthur ...
... ( 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 bedbug - infested Cuyahoga ...
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 |