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Hiller became increasingly emotional as she recalled her oldest son’s decision to become a conscientious objector, a status that is not recognized by the Israeli government...

Author: By Evan M. Vittor, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Israeli Activist Explains Opposition to Conscription | 3/8/2004 | See Source »

Chaplain to Harvard College and Assistant Minister in The Memorial Church Mark D. W. Edington offers his own theory. He calls Sannwald “a conscientious objector [who was] sent as a medic in the eastern front…where he perished. That was the whole idea of sending him there, I imagine.” The letter from Grabau also claims that Sannwald may have been an objector and that drafting him was a convenient way of getting...

Author: By Stephen M. Fee, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Writing on the Wall | 11/6/2003 | See Source »

Charles Ufford ’53 was raised a Quaker and, according to the tenets of his religion, registered as a conscientious objector when his draft examination rolled around...

Author: By Alexandra N. Atiya, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Fighting in the 'Forgotten War' | 6/2/2003 | See Source »

...time at Harvard, he dropped his conscientious objector listing and filed a student deferral. Ufford says he felt he needed to serve...

Author: By Alexandra N. Atiya, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Fighting in the 'Forgotten War' | 6/2/2003 | See Source »

...life to social causes. Trained as an activist by the Quakers, Rustin went to New York City and, unfortunately, dabbled in Communist Party activity before quitting in disgust in 1941. Mentored by black labor organizer A. Philip Randolph, Rustin worked in the trade-union movement before becoming a conscientious objector in World War II. He took his pacifism to an extreme, going to a federal penitentiary rather than in any way aiding the war effort...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Invisible Man | 1/20/2003 | See Source »

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