90 - Wasser, Bruce Jay; Schumer Chapman, Fern
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How far would you go to avoid being forced to kill? 90 is the number that, on a cold December night, hijacks a young man's future. The year is 1969; Bruce is 20, and 90 is his draft lottery number. The number that guarantees he'll be drafted into the military-likely becoming a soldier in the Vietnam War. In this compelling memoir, one young man-an outsider among his privileged peers at Princeton University - questions everything he believes as his life is dramatically reshaped by an overwhelming moral dilemma. His father's death deprives Bruce of the guidance he needs in this most masculine…mehr

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How far would you go to avoid being forced to kill? 90 is the number that, on a cold December night, hijacks a young man's future. The year is 1969; Bruce is 20, and 90 is his draft lottery number. The number that guarantees he'll be drafted into the military-likely becoming a soldier in the Vietnam War. In this compelling memoir, one young man-an outsider among his privileged peers at Princeton University - questions everything he believes as his life is dramatically reshaped by an overwhelming moral dilemma. His father's death deprives Bruce of the guidance he needs in this most masculine decision: whether to fight or declare himself a conscientious objector who refuses to kill. Would a real man do whatever his country asks? Or must he follow his conscience, placing integrity above friends, family, and his own future? "90 is a living thing to me. Who knew a number could have so much power? It's behind whatever I say or do, every decision I make - getting involved with someone, whether to protest, if I can even go to law school. 90 robs me of my freedom! "
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Bruce Jay Wasser graduated with high honors from Princeton University in 1971. A conscientious objector during the Vietnam War, Wasser performed alternative service as a laboratory glassware washer in the Palo Alto (CA) Veterans Administration Hospital. In the fall of 1973, Wasser began a thirty-three-year career as a junior and high school American history and English teacher in Newark, California. He received numerous honors during his tenure, including "Teacher of the Year" and California's prestigious "Golden Bell" Award for helping create "Programs of Conscience," a curriculum that brought students face-to-face with past and current injustices. Now retired, he lives with his wife, author Fern Schumer Chapman, in northern Illinois where he officiates four sports.