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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... 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 E ...
... never missed her visit , in spite of a new job as director of the Huron Road Nursery School . I was glad when they called me to gather my things for departure . It turned out that I was transferred to the Federal Prison in Chilli- cothe ...
... never report any problems . The majority were anxious to learn and were willing students in arith- metic , reading , and writing . There was a minority of gold brickers who merely attended to avoid work on the labor gangs . I pointed ...
... never force feed anybody , is trying to work solutions to this CO . So all gave credit to Meredith for our new censorship policies . " On May 10 I sent a long letter to Eleanor for infant Mallory . " I want to tell you , Mallory , " I ...
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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 |