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...years ago, I was invited to join a group of men who were meeting every other week or so to talk about Vietnam. Three of us had served there. Of the others, one had been a conscientious objector; another had got lucky with the draft; a third had been too old for Vietnam but was active in the antiwar movement. Though our circumstances had placed us in very different, even conflicting positions, nobody was of a mind to find fault with anyone else. Indeed, the other two veterans had both become pacifists some years back...
...divisions between us, but hardly the only one. My tour in Vietnam had been different from the former captain's. I could not follow him to that extremity of desolation where his memories often led; he was alone there. Nor could the lottery winner follow the conscientious objector to his outpost of remembrance. The more we talked, the farther away we seemed to be. And we weren't even arguing...
...eighteen, Mendelsohn chose to be a conscientious objector to the Korean War. Now, surrounded by books in his Science Center office, the professor speaks of this decision as one of his most formative experiences. He views it as the basis of his social conscience, a stance of which he remains proud. Luckily, the young Mendelsohn was never called to duty, and so never faced the prospect of incarceration...
...conscientious objector, Mendelsohn became involved with the American Friends Service Committee, a Quaker Service organization. At that time, he dealt with the Soviet-American conflict, specifically with issues of disarmament. In 1968, a problem arose in a refugee camp in Gaza. The American Friends Service Committee asked Mendelsohn to swing by and help out; he has been involved with the Middle East ever since...
David O. Loud '68 said that "Vietnam overshadowed [his] whole career," even though he had been a conscientious objector and had done alternative service in a hospital laundry rather than fight...