On being a conscientious objector to military service in 1959

[...]the biggest decision that I had made was to leave the boy scouts to concentrate on my O levels.) I had sent in my own statement and those from a consultant physician from my first job and two of my elders from university. In the book On Being Wounded (Fulcrum Publishing, 1991), Edward W Wood wrote of "the voices of my mothers" and suggested that female ancestors tried to protect American men from aggressive excesses.