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Upon examining that Act after the meeting, however, Butcher said, "He was misleading us--a person can legally be a conscientious objector under our draft laws...
Tonight's meeting is the first activity of the Fellowship of Reconciliation since the club lost last year's president, Edward A. French, a conscientious objector who spearheaded a petition for non-intervention in Indo-China...
American Heritage. Brubeck's parents were Presbyterian, gave him a mildly religious upbringing, but he developed a searching religious bent of his own. With deep scruples against taking life, when World War II broke out, he did the next best thing to being a conscientious objector. "I resolved never to have a cartridge in my gun if I ever landed at the front," he says. "I wanted to be sure beforehand that I could never kill...
Quaker Reeve is one of a dozen volunteers serving as human guinea pigs at Bethesda. He is also a conscientious objector. Under the Selective Service Act he had elected to work off his obligation with two years of service contributing to "the maintenance of the national health, safety or interest." Of the 4,000 Quakers, Mennonites, members of the Assemblies of God and Church of the Brethren, or other pacifist sects who choose this course each year, most go to work as attendants in mental hospitals. Only a hardy few volunteer for guinea-pig duty...
Hinton's experience included Harvard and Cornell, where he majored in dairy farming. In World War II, he bucked the national pattern not by noisy rebellion and not with unshakable conviction. He registered as a conscientious objector because "we ought to help one another . . . instead of killing each other...