Status Updates From Letters of Note: War

[LETTER 26 Gandhi to Adolf Hitler,1939]

Dear friend
That I address you as a friend is no formality.I own no foes.My business in life has been for the past 33 years to enlist the friendship of the whole of humanity by befriending mankind,irrespective of race,colour or creed.(..) If you attain success in the war,it will not prove that you were in the right.It will only prove that your power of destruction was greater.

"You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will. War is cruelty and you cannot refine it."

HDQRS, MILITARY DIVISION OF THE MISSISSIPPI
In the field, Atlanta, Georgia
September 12, 1864

[LETTER 09 The Women of England and the women of Germany and Austria, 1914]

(...)As we saw in South Africa and the Balkan States, the brunt of modern war falls upon non-combatants, and the conscience of the world cannot bear the sight.Is it not our mission to preserve life?Do not humanity and common sense alike prompt us to join hands with the women of neutral countries and urge our rulers to stay further bloodshed?

[LETTER 4-Rabi Morris Frank to his son,1 May 1944]

(..)Henry, you must always remember that every child whether he is the son of a Hindu,or a little Chinese boy,or a child of a Ukraine peasant, wheter he is a youngster born in Burma, or he is one of our sharecropper's children or whether he is a Jewish child in one of Europe's Ghettos-all these must be free-and they must have food.They must be free to think, to say.

[Letter 1 THERE'S NO HOPE IN WAR
Kurt Vonnegut to the Draft Board
28 November 1967]

My son(...)is now in the process of requesting classification as a conscientious objector. I thoroughly approve of what he is doing. It is in keeping with the way I have raised him. All his life he has learned hatred for killing from me.