c.e.o. application was denied. it was clearly a hostile hostile environment where he's one of those conscience objector applicants minority that they are and. by golly you know will send a message that you don't do this. for . humanity eventually figured out that human sacrifice was wrong so they stopped doing that and we eventually figured out the slavery was wrong so we stopped doing that so why don't we use the same criteria for war and i just get away from it all the way all together. here you have. ten year army veteran const back from iraq with an enhanced sense of humanity. his dangers for the military they don't want forty year old soldier to say hey it's before our brothers and sisters. sergeant benderman was found guilty on one charge of missing movement by design he will be reduced to the grade of anyone confined for fifteen months in dishonorably discharged. if there's anything that i can get across to other soldiers that i am not against them. but i am against war. no soldier should leave their conscien

c.e.o. applicant has to state what that was for them and the interrogation with that you noticed was my crystallization of conscience. and it wasn't that a bunch of new beliefs suddenly emerged out of nowhere i realized for me to follow christ. involves taking seriously the charge for peacemaking. in the beginning of february two thousand and five i formally submitted my application to be considered a conscientious objector. my application was proved by the thirtieth of may i was out of the army. i lived as a soldier for ten years. some of the things that happened in iraq you know things that my father told me started coming back and i miss him already with on coming. and i started thinking about. change of mind or more every want to put it but it took being over there for almost seven months and then being back here for a year and i have you know really doing a lot of deep down reflection and i guess the term of soul searching. when i talk about it with my wife going over it over and over again thinking about it. i've spent a lot of time learning and reevaluating my mild person and you know myself and

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