Word: objectors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Vonnegut, 28, was wise to the ways of innocence. At Swarthmore College he majored in religion and registered as a conscientious objector. At his draft physical, his erratic behavior earned him 4-F military rating. Mark, his girl and some other friends then bought an abandoned farm in British Columbia...
...Supreme Court held that the beliefs of a conscientious objector need not be based on religion, as draft boards had required. One appeals court then ruled that any man who could show that he did not bother seeking C.O. status because of the religion rule may raise the claim retroactively...
...deadline, the case-by-case review is certain to be a difficult task. To assess accurately the motives of men who evaded service as long as five years ago may prove impossible. There is a problem of equity too for the many men who sought status as conscientious objectors and would have served 24 months in alternate work, but were denied that classification by local draft boards. To ask them to take menial jobs now, when they have acquired careers and families, seems harsh. Many also became fugitives before the Supreme Court, in June 1970, broadened the definition of conscientious...
...balanced assessment of the Ford program was offered by Bill Meis, 29, an aspiring novelist who lives with his wife and two children in Montreal. Denied conscientious-objector status, he fled in 1968. "O.K., I accept the sentiment behind the proposal," he says, "but it's a kind of humiliation, a concept that we were subversive. It's a hardship for our families. Some of them would have to go on welfare for two years while husbands served out their debts. I've had a very good life here, but there's no point in denying...
...clemency plan defies the recommendation of every religious body in America and rejects the principal point of 37 previous grants of presidential amnesty. By degrading those opposed to war, it invites further wars because, as President Kennedy wrote, "War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today...