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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... lives with his wife , LENNA MAE GARA , a freelance writer and community activist , in Wilmington , Ohio , where he retired from Wilmington Col- lege after 40 years in the classroom . He is concerned that the record of active nonviolence ...
... lives and destroy the fu- tures of millions throughout the world . The war followed years of disillusionment with World War I and two decades of antiwar writ- ing and activity in the United States . Even after fighting began in Europe ...
... , lecturer , and writer . With his wife , Harriet Warner , he now lives in North Carolina and Maine . Photo courtesy of the Antiochiana Collection , Antioch College . of President Roosevelt's war goals of " Freedom of Expression.
... live with , but I don't care . All my love . As one of the older cons said in speaking of my arrest , " Clark said , ' Pardon me , Marshall , but may I go back for my hat ? ' " On December 29 I was informed by a telegram from my mother ...
... live in his home at no expense . Coming out of prison I did not question this arrangement , although I wondered about being that close to a person with so much power over me . Howard Gill's wife was a psychiatrist at Washington's St ...
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 |