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Josh Stieber

"I knew I couldn’t keep doing what I was doing,...if I had to serve the rest of my enlistment in jail, then that's where I needed to be.

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Logan Laituri

"I decided to enlist in the active duty Army to fund my eventual college education."

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Conor Curran

"As my desperation grew, the lessons the Iraqi man taught me that brief summer afternoon began to surface.... Could my judgmental actions rooted in things other than love be the reasons my life was miserable?"

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Dennis Boyer

"It came like a flash of light to me that there is a bigger picture here than just Dennis Boyer stuck in a rotten place that he doesn't want to be...I developed for the first time in my life some empathy for what was happening to people there and it filled me with a sense of rage.

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Dick Davis

"I had been around in the military for 15 years... 'Conscientious Objection' are two bad words in the military.

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