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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... Resisters of World War II Tell Their Stories Larry Gara, Lenna Mae Gara. small & candles : lenna a mae War resisters of world war ii Hell their stories gara Little is known about those who openly refused to enter. sa few larry gara.
... 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 ...
... Refused to Register in the October 1940 Draft and a Little of What It Led To DAVID DELLINGER 3. My Resistance to World War II RALPH DIGIA 4. My War and My Peace ARTHUR A. DOLE 5. My War on War LARRY GARA 6. War Resistance in World War ...
... refused in- duction . Others went to CPS camps but 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 ...
... refused to report to Civilian Public Ser- vice at Big Flats , New York . This was a violation of the Selective Training and Service Act of 1941 , and bond was set at two thousand dollars . So I sat in a D.C. jail while my friends got on ...
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 |