Man Jailed for Refusing to Kill in 1969

“I thought it was a crazy world. All the killing. All the Nam. All the people protesting. All everything,”

“I just decided I didn’t want to be a part of killing anybody. That’s about as plain as I can say it.”

“I don’t think anybody that went to Nam can honestly come back and say, ‘Yes, we did the right thing.’ It was a mistake from Day One, and the only people who don’t want to admit it’s a mistake is the politicians.”

Ernest McQueen, deserted Marines in 1969.

Deanna Boyd, “Ex-Marine arrested after more than 36 years on the lam,” Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 1/15/06.