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...naval officer and one of those ramrod matriarchs who appeared to have walked straight from the Mayflower to Beacon Hill, young Bobby seemed to be born with sand under his skin. The man who would go to jail as a conscientious objector in World War II was a schoolboy brawler nicknamed "Cal" after the most violent of Roman emperors, Caligula...
...distant and depressing. Mr. and Mrs. Francoeur, devout Roman Catholics, are seen intermittently flitting through their woods like shades in Dante's Purgatorio, while Daniel tussles with sexuality, unspecified rage and moral salvation. Should he refuse to register for the draft or sign up as a conscientious objector? The question threatens to overburden a small, finely balanced novel of physical awakening. But the risks pay off in an unexpected dimension. Daniel's brother Albert, a Marine Corps officer, offers advice that goes beyond the usual gung-ho justifications. "Your private longing may be to live," he writes...
Sasway is not a conscientious objector; he believes in "just wars" (World War II, for example, but not Viet Nam). "A volunteer Army," he says, "is the only kind of military force compatible with a country philosophically rooted in freedom and equal justice." As the first American indicted for draft-registration evasion since the Viet Nam era, he faces up to five years in jail and $10,000 in fines...
...house is well staffed with all three. Unseen on an upper floor is the dying Tinkbell, a butler before whom employers cringe, quite apart from guests. The current butler and harried man-of-all-work, Maitland (Donal Donnelly), has done five years in jail as a conscientious objector. He is a flavorsome cousin of Bernard Shaw's servants, brimming with querulous grievance...
...would reestablish a lottery for all men and women aged 20 through 24, if drafted, men and women would serve in one of the four arms of our nation's military for two years. No exemptions would be granted for any reason other than unfitness to serve and conscientious objector status. And the system of deferments for college students would be wiped out. We realize that in endorsing such a proposal, we join with the reactionaries of every stripe in this nation; we hope, though, to set forth a fresh and progressive justification for the draft as a tool...