Joseph G. LaPointe Jr.
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Joseph Guy LaPointe Jr. was a combat medic in the United States Army who posthumously received the Medal of Honor for his actions during the Vietnam War.
Specialist Four Joseph LaPointe
Medal of Honor Certificate
Memorial highway named for LaPointe
Conscientious objector
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A conscientious objector is an "individual who has claimed the right to refuse to perform military service" on the grounds of freedom of conscience or of religion. The term has also been extended to o
Joseph G. LaPointe Jr.
…Clayton and worked as a mail carrier in Englewood. LaPointe was a nature lover and avid hiker. LaPointe was drafted in 1968 and declared himself a conscientious objector. He married Cindy Failor of Dayton, Ohio at the Englewood First Baptist Church in Ohio, during his training at the Army Medical Training Center, Fort…
The Deserter by Boardman Robinson, The Masses, 1916
Refusing to serve in the Vietnam War, boxer Muhammad Ali stated, "I ain't got no quarrel with them Viet Cong ... They never called me nigger." in 1966
Blessed are the Peacemakers (1917) by George Bellows
Stamp created by the Centre de défense des objecteurs de conscience (around 1936)