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...sequence of events began in 1968, when First Lieutenant Louis P. Font graduated from West Point in the top five per cent of his class. In September Font enrolled in the Kennedy School of Government as a member of the Army's distinguished graduates' program...
...Font wrote the Army 18 months later and applied for discharge as a conscientious objector, citing as his reasons the gross immorality of the war in Vietnam and his refusal to fight in it. He was the first graduate in the 168-year history of West Point to apply for C. O. status...
...weeks later, on Friday, March 13, Font was sitting in Professor Samuel H. Beer's seminar on comparative political parties, when an Army sergeant walked into the room and requested that Font meet him in the hall outside. Font stepped out of the room to learn that he was being ordered to disengage himself from Harvard on Monday and report to Fort George T. Meade in Maryland on Tuesday...
...Font was assigned various jobs at Ft. Meade while his superiors thought of various ways of dismissing his unprecedented request and sending him to Vietnam. The Army's speculation stopped in July when Font's lawyer obtained a federal court ruling preventing his being ordered to Indochina. However, Font's farcical succession of jobs continued...
...months Font worked at the base Family Housing Office, helping veterans returning from the war find homes. When Font uncovered evidence of racial segregation and unfair housing policy in nearby Odenton, Maryland, and brought this matter to the attention of his superiors, he was transferred to another...