Hasan's position in an incredible decision made last month by the secretary of the Army to grant conscientious objector status to Pfc.

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Because I think you've got to face up to the fact that if you are a conscientious objector in a time of war, of your country at war, then you are excluded from the assembly of your countrymen in a particular manner.

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He was drafted into the military in the early 1950s but served as a conscientious objector.

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Monte Bello fell into desuetude during Prohibition, and a portion was replanted in the '40s by William Short, a Unitarian minister jailed as a conscientious objector throughout World War I.

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