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A philosophical and moral conversion led this soldier to leave the military. Why don't more take this path? 

by  Jim W. Dean, VT Editor, … and all those who contributed to making Hacksaw Ridge Update 02-21-17 8:49 pm – We had a wonderful two hours with both Terry Barlett and Woody Williams and will be posting the show links and a follow up article in a day or so…JD ____________ Mel spent ten long years getting this movie made. Tuesday night, February 21, from 6 to 8pm EST, we have a double-header Mike Harris – Jim Dean VT Radio special, hosting the BluRay-DVD release of Mel Gibson’s Hacks...

Abortion Is Now Legal in Argentina, but Opponents Are Making It Hard to Get Anti-abortion activists are suing to block a new law allowing the procedure, and many doctors in conservative areas have declared themselves conscientious objectors. Abortion opponents outside the National Congress in Buenos Aires in December. Credit...Sarah Pabst for The New York Times By Daniel Politi BUENOS AIRES — For the first time in more than a century, women in Argentina can legally get an abortion, but that l...

Editor’s note: This is part two of a six-part series on conscription (the draft).In 1917, the administration of President Woodrow Wilson decided to r

    When you are a combat soldier, you are forced to depend on many things beyond your control. You accept that the artillery folks are well trained and accurate, you believe the Huey’s will arrive for extraction, you have some confidence that the jets will drop their bombs where they aim and not on you or your unit, you build a bond with your fellow soldiers that they will protect you flank and rear.   However, the one thing you trust above all others is your unit MEDIC. He carries his ho...

Anti-vaccination protests are nothing new, although in the past they did have some justification. When Edward Jenner introduced smallpox inoculation at the end of the 18th century he was widely derided as yet another quack trying to make a quick fortune. Envious rivals were swift to point out his lack of professional qualifications, while one satirist imagined his children turning into cows after being vaccinated: There, nibbling at thistle, stand Jem, Joe and Mary On their foreheads, Oh, horri...

That he described rudy giuliani as a hand grenade, that he described mick mulvaney as being engaged in a drug deal, that he didnt want anything to do with. his reputation has been described by other witnesses in the impeachment proceeding was described it as a conscientious objector, that someone who was in the white house at the highest levels had nothing to do with the ukraine extortion campaign or effort. sondland walks in today and says two things that were -- that seemed to take a bite out ...

And the question is who did it and why. and those are the basic questions and the answers clear. the president did it, and he did it to benefit himself personally, the white house, meaning the security assistance. and so when you talk about quid pro quo and you talk about these other things, its easy for us all to sound like a bunch of lawyers. but i just wanted to bring it back to the basics. and also, you know, forgive me, but i wanted there to be a little accountability for gordon sondland, w...

I think i make up for it now. $700 billion i gave last year, and this year $716 billion, and i think im making up for it rapidly because were rebuilding our military at a level that its never seen before. >> so, bob costa, what we heard there was effectively the president saying hes a conscientious objector to the vietnam war and maybe it wasnt the bone spurs, after all, that kept him away. >> the presidents record on vietnam came under scrutiny not just because of his trip to europe this week b...

Against hitler. i was like a lot of people. i wasnt out in the streets marching. i wasnt saying, you know, im going to move to canada, which a lot of people did. but no, i was not a fan of that war. that war was not something -- >> would you have liked to serve generally? >> i would not have minded that at all. i make up for it now. $700 billion i gave last year and this year $716 billion and i think im making up for it rapidly because were rebuilding our military at a level that its never seen ...