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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... 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 ...
... released from the Hole , sat on a bench awaiting our depar- ture . The guard who had taken care of Stanley approached with a pair of socks and leather shoes . It was evident that Stanley had won the respect of this guard , because in ...
... released into the general population . While the administration did not discipline us , they did not ignore what we ... release Stanley without " losing face . " So we put our shoes back on . However , Butcher felt we should have held ...
... released from the Blue Room and admitted to the hospital for foot treatment . Upon re- lease from the hospital , he was handed a pair of tennis shoes and the case of " the Barefoot Boy " was closed . There were some aftereffects . Three ...
... went home . I began to press the administration to release me about nine months early , since I had been in prison and absent from my family for long years . And so I rejoined my family , and shortly found 18 BRONSON P. CLARK.
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 |