Ten Conscientious Objections to War: Being a Peaceful Warrior in a War Against War

Out of a desperate search for career and battles with cultural angst during the right-wing regime of 2001-2009, Walton Stowell joined the US Military. Architect turned basic-enlisted-grunt went from a spiritual environmental quest, to a more aggressive head-on confrontation with the Global War on Terror. He sacrificed his pagan mohawk and dreadlocks to the gods, and vowed to seek out supporters of War and challenge them to rethink their arrogance. To do so he would summon the emotions of death by violence, and communicate what the historic results of such cycles are. Whether or not he succeeded, he was prepared to be sent off and simply die in combat, as another forgotten casualty with no remembered message beyond "he died for his Country". If he lived, he would never stop fighting for the freedom to be a Peaceful Patriot, and a Wise Warrior. This non-fiction book is the official report turned in by Airman Stowell to the United States Air Force with his Conscientious Objector Application in 2008. He was the first and only Airman in West Virginia (at least since Vietnam) to request release from duty as an official objector to "all military industrial wars". After 5 years of service he was given an honorable discharge, and does not regret his choices. By making this book public the author shares that it is not only possible to legally object to the military industrial complex, but that it was actually done.