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Journal–Conclusion of Draft Resistance Story
Yesterday I described what happened the first time I turned in my draft card. At my parents request, I asked the draft board to return the draft card, to give my family more time to accept my decision. The draft … Continue reading
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Scattergood Journal–Returning My Draft Card
Even though I was convinced that I should not cooperate with the Selective Service System, at the time of my 18th birthday, November 21, 1969, I reluctantly registered for the draft as required by law. I hadn’t yet come to the … Continue reading
Scattergood Journal — Conscientious Objector Letters
First I’d like to share what my Friend Evalyn Kellum, of North Meadow Circle of Friends, where I attended when I was living in Indianapolis, wrote about An Epistle to Friends Concerning Military Conscription: Thank you for sending your struggle with conscription. … Continue reading
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Scattergood Journal – Epistle to Friends Concerning Military Conscription
I’ve been sharing entries from my journal from my Senior year at Scattergood Friends School, which was the time I was struggling with what to do as I faced my 18th birthday on November 21, 1969, when every male was … Continue reading
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Scattergood Journal – Draft Conference and Draft Registration
The previous blog post has some discussion about preparing for the draft conference that was held at Scattergood November 15, 1969, as part of the Moratorium Against the Vietnam War. Following are more journal entries from that time. November 8, … Continue reading
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Tagged draft resistance, Scattergood, Vietnam War, war
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Scattergood Journal – Beginning to plan next Moratorium Day
The last post from my journal from my Scattergood days was about the Peace Walk the School did as part of the Vietnam War Moratorium Days, October 15, 1969. The plan was to have another Moratorium Day November 15. Journal, … Continue reading
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Connections
Reading over the recent Scattergood Journal posts, I realized they are a bit disjointed. There were a number of references in them that could have been more fully explained. If you didn’t see the video that was in yesterday’s post, … Continue reading
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Tagged Don Laughlin, draft resistance, Scattergood, Vietnam War
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Scattergood Journal 1969
Reading Chris Matthew’s new book, Bobby Kennedy: A Raging Spirit, I am remembering that tumultuous time in my life, and in our country. I had begun to write in a journal at the beginning of my Senior year, 1969, at … Continue reading
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Tagged conscription, draft resistance, Scattergood
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Civic Responsibility revised
As I’ve been writing recently, we will be discussing the queries about civic responsibility at Bear Creek meeting this month. I was also trying to come up with a new version of the queries. But I think my first attempt … Continue reading
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New Civic Responsibility Queries
While sharing my responses about our Quaker queries regarding civic responsibility, an Iowa Yearly Meeting (Conservative) Friend explained reasons he felt our queries should be revised. I asked him to provide an example and he said he is working on … Continue reading
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