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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... 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 II JOHN H. GRIFFITH 7. Reflections of a Religious War Objector xi 1 20 38 53 ...
... in business and for the American Friends Service Committee , becoming executive secretary in 1969. Eleanor died in 1987 , and in 1989 I married Harriet Warner . David Dellinger Why I Refused to Register in the October PRISON MEMOIR 19.
... David Dellinger Why I Refused to Register in the October 1940 Draft and a Little of What It Led To While in Spain during the Civil War , I knew I had to find a better way of fighting ... DAVID DELLINGER ( b . 1915 ) David Dellinger began 20.
... DAVID DELLINGER ( b . 1915 ) David Dellinger began his lifelong work for peace and justice while a student at Yale , from which he graduated in 1936. Since World War II he has been a printer , editor , author , and lecturer . An antiwar ...
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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 |