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conscientious objectorPerson refusing compulsory service, usually military, on moral, religious, or political grounds.
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| soldiers killed in Iraq erected by Jeff Heaton, a Vietnam War conscientious objector, are visible from a local commuter train station and a nearby freeway, eliciting protests from commuters. After having applied for conscientious objector (CO) status, he served in Afghanistan in a non-combat position. But no feat of derring-do could match the conscientious objector status American papers claimed in the intoonfada, the global uprising over a series of drawings of the prophet Muhammad that originally appeared in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten. |
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