My Thoughts About Conscientious Objection

My Thoughts About Conscientious Objection

by Anne Barschall
Scarsdale Meeting

 

I was first inspired to pacifism when my father’s laboratory was bombed by student radicals opposed to the Vietnam War. A student was killed. Another student was seriously injured. The records of 25 years of my father’s research were destroyed. Moreover, bombers essentially missed their target — an Army Math Research Center that was situated above my father’s laboratory.