No victory was in sight for either the War in Vietnam or the War on Poverty when Vista Volunteer Norman K. Janes started contacting his draft board in 1969 about conscientious objector status, one year out of law school.
A native of Storrs, Janes is a Quaker, and rejects the idea that war is a valid solution to human problems. He obtained conscientious objector status, but wasn’t assigned to any alternative form of national service. He could have kept mum and would have escaped assignment until age 26, the point at which draft boards tended to lose interest in ordering citizens into the military.
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