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In 1968 at the height of the Vietnam War, an estimated 1,300 soldiers who had enlisted in the U.S. Army declared they were conscientious objectors and petitioned the Army for their release from the service. This powerful memoir shares the true story of one of those men ? Jan Parkinson. Through his book, Parkinson shares a true act of courage to stand up for what was right.Jan had grown up believing that we?the Americans ?were always the good guys, resorting to violence only when necessary. But from the moment he got off the bus at Fort Dix, New Jersey, to begin basic combat training, he found the Army's focus on the use of violence to resolve conflicts between people or nations was deeply disturbing. "We are all here to learn to be killers," one of the drill instructors bragged as he was teaching the new soldiers how to make a bayonet wound more gruesome and painful for an adversary. Although he recognized the need to serve his country, it did not override his Christian faith which .

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