Days of Decision: An Oral History of Conscientious Objectors in the Military During the Vietnam War
Oral history
By: Mike Ferner
Date: 1989
Source: Gioglio, Gerald R., ed. Days of Decision: An Oral History of Conscientious Objectors in the Military During the Vietnam War. Trenton: The Broken Rifle Press, 1989, 27–30, 63, 65, 180, 183, 188.
About the Author: Mike Ferner (1951–), born in Toledo, Ohio, struggled to reconcile the media's anti-Communist rhetoric with the moral teachings on pacifism. As a hospital corpsman in the U.S. Navy, Ferner treated soldiers from the Vietnam War who had serious injuries, and the experience deepened his opposition to the war. Ferner returned to Toledo to work as a union organizer for the Farm Labor Organizing Committee and as an activist for the Toledo Coalition for Safe Energy and the Veterans for Peace.
Introduction
The United States's involvement in Vietnam was one of many foreign interventions intended to stem the...
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