During WWII, 25,000 conscientious objectors served as non-combatants in the armed services, in the medical and chaplains corps. Over 12,000 went into Civilian Public Service camps, where they fought forest fires, volunteered as smoke jumpers, built roads, served as medical guinea pigs, and staffed mental institutions. Another 7,000 rejected any form of cooperation and chose to go to prison because of their beliefs. Their hunger and work strikes in prison led to the eventual integration of the Federal prison system. Thus the story of “the good war” and the 40,000 Americans who refused to fight it is told here with first-person testimony, letters, articles, songs and a wide variety of archival materials.