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“All ray life I get in trouble,” Sereda said when questioned.
He had lived with his parents snd two sisters at Sushno, a small Ukraman village, when Hitler’s legion’s grabbed a number of the families for slave labor.
It was during an air raid that ms father, Juhym, who speaks no English, lost the entire elbow of. his left arm, leaving it useless. .^ter * in the labor foattaions, liberation came in 1946 -and the family moved to m DP cemp at Hanover in Germany. f rom there they came to Rappahannock Via New York. ^
Sereda said his objection to war stemmed from his training and baptism in the Ukrsnian Baptist Church of the Slavic Baptist Union.
' ,ltt any wm, but said he (would have served his country in his best way.
He pleaded ignorance to a preinduction physical. Had he taken this* Sereda said* his bad eyes tod stomach ulcers would probably have kept him out. ^ t
Attorney General R. Roy Rush asked the jury to return a “so- V vere penalty." Hush said he had consulted with the youth, and Sereda had consented to be inducted. The lawyer said he had arranged this but Sereda changed his mind and wanted to be inducted at his own convenience.
Mrs. Mary R. Miller, clerk of the Rappahannock draft board where Sereda first registered, said the youth asserted he was opposed to bearing arms because of his religious beliefs. He said, the clerk testified, he would be willing to -serve as a non-combatant.
When the youth moved to Newark, Mrs. Miller said, he had re- ; classified himself as an objector not opposed to non-combatant duty and ordered to report for his physical examination.
Later, he was allowed to again claim exemption as an alien and waived his right to ever become a citizen. When the draft law was amended making aliens subject to the draft, Sereda iwas given his first classification again, and ordered to report for induction. Judge Barksdale said* he was “skeptical” of Sereda being a conscientious objector when the youth was sentenced. The magistrate branded Sereda’s action “A case a of gross ingratitude on the part of this young 4 man and his family." 6 It is the “duty of this young f man to bear the same obligations j as those of citizens who live here," ? he continued. f
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