Eight men who refused to be drafted into the U.S. Armed Forces during WWII describe the reasons for---and consequences of---their conscientious objection. The COs---42,000 in all---"challenged the limits of American democracy in wartime," says narrator Ed Asner. Some, interviewee David Dellinger included, refused to register and were jailed. Others (actor Lew Ayres, most famously) became medics. None made their choices lightly. Says interviewee Sam Yoder: "WWII was a hard war to be a CO in."
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