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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... parole to a civilian hospital , then to the Friends Ambulance Unit in China , Bronson Clark has been active in business and peace - related work . After the war he began a long association with the American Friends Service Committee ...
... parole system . As I prepared my co Form 47 , I added a copy of " Antioch Notes , " written during Arthur E. Morgan's tenure as president of Antioch College ; it contained the following statement : Public Officials , when they deal with ...
... parole with strings , serving his full sentence . He later became one of Wilmington College's superior and long - term faculty members . Wilmington , a Quaker college , found Larry a firm peace advocate despite some unease among those ...
... parole using a hospital as an employment place for me , and after Eleanor made a trip , babe in arms , to visit the parole board in Wash- ington , I was granted parole as of May 20 , a date ten days away . In the Quaker meeting on ...
... parole was granted for employment in a Manhat- tan hospital , but Eleanor so charmed Howard Gill , the deputy di ... parole change to a farm run by an Antiochian friend's husband , but Gill blocked that assignment . With my parole ...
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 |