Charles Wright: Conscientious Objector, Purple Heart Recipient
A local Iowa paper covered Charles Wright, a Vietnam veteran who was drafted in 1966 and entered the US Army as a conscientious objector:
Perhaps the most impressive fact about Wright’s service is that, despite being injured, despite witnessing horrors, despite growing ever-immune to those tragedies, his time in war only strengthened his faith in God.
Read more about Wright, now a pastor, here.
Via the Stars and Stripes.
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