[Diana in Wisconsin]

We don’t need these people anyway. And this article is pure BS, most likely ghost-written.

In 20 years in the Army I processed ONE “Conscientious Objector” discharge packet. ONE. (Out of a Brigade-full of people, which entails tens of thousands of soldiers.)

[ishabibble]

Thanks for the concise opinion. It was my first thought, but I don’t have your background!

[Stonewall Jackson]

One of the best articles I've ever read about Conscientious Objectors was in an old "Life" magazine from July 1945.

"In a 40-room laboratory housed in the football stadium at the University of Minnesota, 34 young men are being systematically starved. They are conscientious objectors from all over the U.S. who volunteered as 'guinea pigs' in a scientific study on starvation. Its immediate object is to find out the best way to rehabilitate the hunger-wasted millions of Europe.

"Mentally the men feel a general lethargy, having little interest in conversation or sex. They complain of feeling 'old.' They report an inability to keep war, average body temperature being 95.8 degrees F.

"Now in the diet's sixth and last month, the volunteers will be given a three-month rehabilitation diet. Many of them wish to go to stricken areas to add their firsthand knowledge of the problem."

Accompanying the article is a picture of one of the volunteers, who'd lost 35 pounds and looks like a walking skeleton.

Can you imagine the liberals' reaction is someone recommended something like this for the CO's today?