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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... stays for thirty days while he is being classified . This block had some outside cells , one of which I entered . I heard at the far end of the tier the guard pull a lever and the bolt lock . Four stone walls , one with a door and one ...
... stay out of jail . " In one math class , trying to get through to them , I said , " If you had a still , and you had a forty - gallon drum , and you put in twenty- five gallons of mash , then added twelve gallons of 10 BRONSON P. CLARK.
... staying at missions and hobo jungles . The fourth influence was the inspiring example of grass - roots practitioners of nonviolent resistance to oppression and injustice . The practitioners included radical Christians , Jews , Bud ...
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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 |