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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... peace and social justice . This is a unique collection of memoirs that illuminates the American homefront during World War II and provides an important source for those interested in the American peace movement . A FEW SMALL CANDLES War ...
... Peace ARTHUR A. DOLE 5. My War on War LARRY GARA 6. War Resistance in World War II JOHN H. GRIFFITH 7. Reflections of a Religious War Objector xi 1 20 38 53 78 8886 98 ( Half a Century Later ) GEORGE M. HOUSER 130 8. Prison and ...
... peace churches , with each objector or his sponsor paying thirty - five dollars a month for his keep , the camps were in fact controlled by Selective Service and headed by the army's General Lewis B. Hershey . The camps were located in ...
... peace and social justice . All of them served prison terms , but their backgrounds and early experiences were strikingly different in terms of religion , class , ethnicity , and political perspective . A few World War II resisters who ...
... peace and civil rights ; Robert Lowell , who twice won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry ; and Igal Roodenko , who became a roving prophet of non- violence , spreading the message at home and abroad . While many resisters later made ...
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 |