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Judge resists Army's denial of conscientious objector status to paratrooper
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5-14-2008 12:22 PM
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Soldier: "War is evil, and nothing but evil comes from it. Many of those who participate in it lose their souls along the way."
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Michael Barnes, a Fort Richardson-based paratrooper who had his request for that designation denied last year, U.S. Magistrate John D. 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I told myself it's not really like that -- that's just a few soldiers' perceptions of their experience."</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=3308877&mesg_id=3308877">after his unit landed in Kuwait, then Iraq</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=3308877&mesg_id=3308877">he began to witness bad behavior firsthand</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=3308877&mesg_id=3308877">"How would I justify to the Lord that participating in war is serving him?</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=3308877&mesg_id=3308877">I cannot. 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