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Article: War Heroes of Another Sort
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- The Washington Post
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- August 8, 1995
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Somewhere in the barrage of punches and counterpunches that is the
shadowboxing among historians and assorted partisans on the rightness
and wrongness of bombing Hiroshima and Nagasaki lies one fact beyond
dispute: The two bombs ended a war but not war-making. After winning
the 20th century's bloodiest and costliest conflict, the United
States went on to become the 20th century's most militarily violent
nation and its ranking arms merchant.
Another indisputable fact also exists in the post-Hiroshima world:
The least honored and most forgotten Americans during World War II
are the courageous people of conscience who refused to obey the 1940
Selective Service Act. These war resisters declined ...