University of Miami Professor of Biology Julian Lee recalls being inducted into the army and applying for conscientious objector status; he was denied and shortly afterwards court-martialled. He was imprisoned in the stockade of Fort Lewis, Washington, and from there sentenced to the Penitentiary "Disciplinary Barracks" in Leavenworth, Kansas. Lee describes his duties at Leavenworth and reports that he was, eventually, honorably discharged from the Army. He summarizes his view of the people he met at Leavenworth, saying, "They were all individualists," from the peace activists to the sociopaths. Everyone received psychiatric evaluations on admittance to Leavenworth and the draft resisters were judged to be "suffering martyr complexes."
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