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Article: Resisting the draft.('Thy Brother's Blood': Reminiscences of World War II)(Cover Story)
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- The Christian Century
- Article date:
- August 16, 1995
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WORLD WAR Il began for me more than a year before Pearl Harbor. I was beginning my senior year at Union Theological Seminary in New York City when the first-time-ever peacetime military conscription went into effect and every American male of age was required to register. I was just 24 and looked forward to a fife in the Christian ministry, for I was ordained in the Methodist Church and was a member of the then Colorado Annual Conference.
I had spent the summer of 1940 as a temporary pastor in a small rural Methodist church in western Colorado. Although the area was far removed from the strains and stresses of world events, I followed the news with careful attention. ...