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From: James Shuman <>
Subject: Re: [BRE] Conscientious objection and Viet Nam
Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2004 15:13:07 -0800
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At 4:08 pm -0500 2/5/04, Harriet Imrey wrote:

[snip]

> Most draft-resisters stated that they would, in fact, have been
>willing to take up arms against Hitler in WWII. So they were not
>considered to be conscientious objectors to war, in general.

That is what helped to popularize the term "religious objector" as a
distinction from those who claimed their conscience could sometimes
tell them one thing and sometimes the opposite.
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