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American Friends Service Committee — Part 8
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wAR IS TES EVOMY NOT FECELE
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of Destruction or The Universs] Soléser hold a reci meaning fer you’
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Tcfar, when etrtiitral cells te ver in the mare ef retbon.
hener epcund, many effous relect ollitery values cecease 20
Ae morally wring to HLLL, Veo reaiine, tot, thay, an Cancree
Mearthur's verés, "Its very €estructiveness on beth frienc end
foe has renéered wer useless as a means mf settling irternetionel
Gisputes," We reject viclence and cuestion the traditional
ecvtitudéeses and explanetions used to justify war,
If the Commen-Selcéiers Refusem to Fight, Armies
Would Cease to Exist and War Would Ee No Hore
Today a young men must expect to register for the Dratt en his 18th
birtnéey ed sonetine thereafter +o serve in the armed forces, A young
wenan must face seperation, hardship end possible lass’ af loved ones. |
Once in service the young man comes under military discipline designec
sO overcone his kunen reluctance to kill, Efforts may be made to cever
this fact but the reality remains: "You will be shown how to plunge ®
bayonet into the flesh of another hucan being, hov to break his neck
vith your bare hands, ‘You will be trained to drop bombs on a target
that in action mey turm cut to be a hone or school. You mey even be
ordered to detonate a nuclear weapon which could wipe out square miles
of imman habitations end mundreds of thousands of lives.
is This a Reality You Wish to Accepts Without Question?
ALTERNATIVES 20 ARZD SERVICE
, Taf my soldiers began to think, not one
: would rerain in the ranks"=-Frederic the G1
From the young comes hope for change, ‘The Seattle P.I., in e syndicate
column, reported a shary increase in the number of youths rejecting +heé
entorvsn] call to earns, ;
18 year olds who feil to register. —The local boards
Simply have no way of discovering thet a boy has turned
26 and hasn", registered, unless sameone turns him in,
at is risky, however, to pull a fast one on Uncle San.
ahoee who try it usually get caught, They are subject
to five years in prison end a #16,000 fine. But more often
» ‘their names are merely put at the head of the list and
_ whey are the first to be hustled off to boot camp." ee
4 Jack Anderson 4 , t. 28, 1965.
What Mr. Anderson son, Seattle P, I., Sep » 2965
fails to mention is that for those wha do not believ
in ver, who do not believe either their country or menkind is served b;
orgenizec or Institutionalizee violence, there is an elternative ta
éaratt reoi stance—TJonseient
a jous Objection to Militery Service.
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