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Conscientious Objectors commemoration stone, Tavistock Sq, London (All Pic Hina Pandya Copyright res) Friday was a really busy day for me, but not so busy that I didn't spare a thought for the conscientious objectors that declined to fight in the war. In war sometimes people were conscripted, it wasn't a choice to go and fight, you were required to 'do what was right' for your country... Of course the men who declined to fight were ridiculed and looked down upon, many saw their choice as pure cowardice, and the term 'white feather' was used to describe such men in WW1 and WW2. Little white tags say the names of the objectors Some might say their refusal to go to war, to kill another person has such humanity in it, so much hope. So in the midst all of all the recent celebrations we've had of the fallen on Victory day and Liberation day it seemed fitting that I visited the 'conscientious objectors' memorial in Tavistock Square, which also...