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Smoke Jumping on the Western Fire Line: Conscientious Objectors During World War II
During the Vietnam era, conscientious objectors received both sympathy and admiration from many Americans. It was not so during World War II. The pacifists who chose to sit out that wars first line of defense against wildfires in the West.Drawing on extensive interviews with World War II conscientious objectors and original documents from the period, Matthews vividly recre...more
Hardcover, 336 pages
Published
August 21st 2006
by University of Oklahoma Press
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Awesome historical portrait of young men who became smokejumpers because they were conscientious objectors. Spat upon and even beaten up because of their pacifistic beliefs, these young men showed their mettle by becoming firefighters doing some of the most difficult fire work there is.
Highly worth reading, though of more interest to a firefighter or historian than others.
Highly worth reading, though of more interest to a firefighter or historian than others.
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