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...exception is Pvt. Sam Lwin, who intends to be the first reservist to plead innocent to a desertion charge. The 21-year-old college student, born in Burma and raised in New York City, had seen posters promising adventure and job training...
...freshman year in college, my ex-roommate was in the Coast Guard and you know I look at him, I was impressed with him because I thought he was doing something to serve his country," Lwin said...
...Lwin signed up for six years with the reserves in 1988, about the time he applied for U.S. citizenship. But the violence of drills clashed with the peaceful approach to life advocated by his Buddhist religion...
...Lwin, who received about $140 a month for tuition from the Marine Corps in addition to his $100 monthly salary, said he didn't realize there was a way out until he received a flier at an anti-war forum last fall...
...November, just days after Lwin filed his conscientious objector application, beginning a process that can take months, his Bronx, N.Y., unit was mobilized. Lwin waited more than a week to report to duty...