Army & Navy - DRAFT: Dodgers and Dissenters

A Boston Lowell and a Hartford Mokarsky last week headlined the tightening and toughening of Selective Service.

The Back Bayer was a young (26) poet, Robert Traill Spence Lowell Jr., son of a retired naval commander, scion of a famed family with members in every war since the Revolution. No ordinary conscientious objector, Lowell twice tried to enlist, later reversed his views because he decided the bombings of total war are unethical. So he refused to serve "as a matter of principle." He was sentenced to a year and a day in Federal prison....

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