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...Saturday afternoon sun of a somber January, the black granite walls of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial were warm, almost animate to the touch. A blond teenage girl with a paper dove in her hair from an antiwar rally stood near two fortyish men talking softly about a bungled mortar attack a generation and half a world away. Two helicopters whirred overhead, the sound both jarring and fitting. Odd how certain names leaped to the eye and touched the heart. Irvin W. Prosser Jr., Zygmunt Kowalewski, Sherl K. Bonnett. Strangers all, so there were no images of them as soldiers...
...next step, a hearing with military officials, can be trying, says Robert Dove, a counselor with the American Friends Service Committee. "Sometimes you get questions like 'What would you do if Hitler killed your grandmother?' I would never believe it if I hadn't gotten that one myself...
When deciding whether to award conscientious objector status, Dove says, the military looks for depth and sincerity of belief. He adds that selective objection--to some wars and not all--have not been adequate for exemption in the past...
...some kick left in him by the end of the meet. He edged a Dartmouth swimmer to claim seventh place in the third-to-last event, the 500-freestyle, and for the last leg of the concluding 400-yard freestyle relay he hopped out of the pool and dove off the blocks to kick off his own anchor leg. After the race he was lifted from the pool and whisked off to the locker room on a stretcher held by his teammates...
...Harvard's offense, that is. Rush after rush, the Terriers plastered Harvard netminder Chuckie Hughes with shots. Hughes dove, blocked and fell in front of 38 B.U. shots...