WWII Pacifists Exposed Mental Ward Horrors : NPR

Hurrah for the Quaker (Friends), Brethren, and Mennonite COs in WWII who contributed to this effort. This piece is very moving.

WWII Pacifists Exposed Mental Ward Horrors : NPR: "In September of 1942, Warren Sawyer, a 23-year-old conscientious objector, reported for his volunteer assignment as an attendant at a state mental hospital. The young Quaker was one of thousands of pacifists who had refused to fight and instead were assigned to work in places few outsiders got to see — places like Philadelphia State Hospital, best known as Byberry."