Word: objectore
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...sunny day last week 26-year-old Corporal Desmond T. Doss stood at attention on the White House lawn. President Harry Truman placed a pale blue ribbon around his neck, shook his hand warmly. As he stepped back-the first conscientious objector in U.S. history to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor-generals, admirals, Cabinet members, his proud parents and his pretty wife applauded enthusiastically...
...Seventh-Day Adventist, a conscientious objector, and a veteran, Desmond Doss had something to say about war: "Everybody has got to get back to believing in God and the other fellow and his rights...
...Haven last week, Warren G. Dugan, a conscientious objector, who had been working on polio in Yale's laboratories, died...
...bravest man-of-the-week on Okinawa-at least to the 77th Infantry Division-was a conscientious objector: Private First Class Desmond T. Doss, 26, Medical Corpsman and Seventh-day Adventist...
Weber, married and the father of a three-year-old son, made his views clear to his draft board. He agreed that he was not a conscientious objector, since he did not oppose war on religious grounds. He would gladly take a noncombatant job, such as service in the medical corps. But he would not kill on behalf of "the society in which we now live, and which cannot prevent a third World War." Nevertheless, his draft board listed Weber...