If you claimed conscientious objector status, would a draft board believe you? Curt Torell of Quaker House has some tips for making sure they do. What made you want to look up conscientious objector? Please tell us where you read or heard it (including the quote, if possible). The Conscientious Objector StreamingConscientious Objector Poem by Edna St. Vincent Millay. Autoplay next video. The Conscientious Objector OnlineI shall die, but that is all that I shall do for Death. I hear him leading his horse out of the stall; I hear the clatter on the barn- floor. He is in haste; he has business in Cuba,business in the Balkans, many calls to make this morning. But I will not hold the bridlewhile he clinches the girth. And he may mount by himself: I will not give him a leg up. Though he flick my shoulders with his whip,I will not tell him which way the fox ran. With his hoof on my breast, I will not tell him where the black boy hides in the swamp. I shall die, but that is all that I shall do for Death; I am not on his pay- roll. I will not tell him the whereabout of my friends nor of my enemies either. Though he promise me much, I will not map him the route to any man's door. Am I a spy in the land of the living,that I should deliver men to Death? Brother, the password and the plans of our city are safe with me; never through me Shall you be overcome.
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