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While I was a subject in 1964, though I believed that I was hurting someone, I was totally unaware of why I was doing so.

Few people ever realize when they are acting according to their own beliefs and when they are meekly submitting to authority … To permit myself to be drafted with the understanding that I am submitting to authority's demand to do something very wrong would make me frightened of myself … I am fully prepared to go to jail if I am not granted Conscientious Objector status.

Indeed, it is the only course I could take to be faithful to what I believe.

My only hope is that members of my board act equally according to their conscience …