Kenneth Garver was interned during WWII in CPS Camp 16, Kane, PA, and CPS Camp 80, Lyons, NJ.
"I was born into a Church of the Brethren family and so the belief of the Church of the Brethren was known from the beginning, that in 1708 when the Church was first started over in Germany, the founders of the Church were opposed to things that were going on in the StateChurch.... And our people thought that it should be an age of accountability.... And so the belief, the basic belief in Jesus was a man who taught non-violence. You can't be a warrior and say what he said. Love your enemies. That's ridiculous, of course, you can't love your enemies. I have a bumper sticker on my car that says, 'When Jesus said, Love Your Enemies, I think he probably meant, Don't Kill Them.' And that was a bumper sticker that our Church made available to us.... We're opposed to the war, have been opposed to any war, not a specific war, for the same reason, you just can't kill people."
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