Masu ƙin yarda da imaninsu a wurin cin abinci na sansanin Ma'aikatan Jama'a (CPS) a Lagro, Ind., Lokacin Yaƙin Duniya na II. Hoto daga tarin Laburaren Tarihi da Tarihi na Brothers.
Labari mai zuwa na Howard Royer, wanda kwanan nan ya yi ritaya daga ma'aikatan ɗarika, an rubuta shi don wasiƙar wasiƙar na Cocin Highland Avenue Church of the Brothers a Elgin, Ill.–kuma yana iya ba da misali ga yadda sauran ikilisiyoyi suke tunawa da girmama waɗanda suka ƙi saboda imaninsu:
Domin sanin sansanoni da ayyukan da aka ƙaddamar shekaru 70 da suka gabata, gidan yanar gizon Civilianpublicservice.org yana tattarawa da kuma buga labarai akan kowane sansani 152 da ayyukan da suka yi aiki a cikin jihohi 34 a lokacin yakin duniya na biyu. Sansanonin sun zama gida ga 12,000 da suka ƙi aikinsu da imaninsu waɗanda suke aiki a asibitocin tabin hankali, da ke kula da dazuzzukan jihohi, sun yi yaƙi da gobarar daji, gina hanyoyi, madatsun ruwa, da gidaje, ko kuma suka ba da kansu ga binciken kimiyya.
Sa’ad da Yaƙin Duniya na Biyu ya soma, ikilisiyoyi masu zaman lafiya—’Yan’uwa, Abokai, da Mennonites—sun yi shawarwari da gwamnati don su kafa tsarin da waɗanda suka ƙi saboda imaninsu za su iya yin wata hidimar da ba ta soja ba. Ikklisiyoyi masu zaman lafiya sun ɗauki alhakin gudanarwa da kuma ba da kuɗin shirin, wanda ’yan’uwa suka ba da gudummawar fiye da dala miliyan 1.3 da abinci da sutura masu yawa. Shirin ya sami waɗanda suka ƙi saboda imaninsu daga ƙungiyoyin addinai 200, waɗanda kusan 1,200 ’yan’uwa ne.
A farkon shirin a 1940, Highland Avenue Church of the Brothers a Elgin, Ill., ya ba Fasto, Clyde Forney, hutun watanni shida tare da albashi don tsara aikin kiyayewa na CPS a Lagro, Ind. A cikin 1942, W An kira Harold Row don ya jagoranci shirin Cocin Brothers CPS na ƙasa.
Hedkwatar ’Yan’uwa da ke Elgin an ba wa matasa da yawa da suka yi aikin hidima a lokacin yaƙin. Daga cikinsu akwai J. Aldene Ecker, Robert Greiner, da Roy Hitesew, waɗanda dukansu suka zauna ko suka koma Elgin kuma suka zama membobin cocin Highland Avenue na dogon lokaci.
Biyu da suka yi aiki a CPS kuma a halin yanzu suna cikin dangin Highland Avenue su ne Merle Brown, 94, da Russell Yohn, 88. Brown sun yi hidima a shirye-shirye a Pennsylvania da New Jersey; Yohn a Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Michigan, Oregon, da Virginia. A ƙarshen yaƙin duka mutanen biyu sun ba da kansu a matsayin "masu kauye masu zuwa teku," suna jigilar dabbobin agaji zuwa al'ummomin da yaƙi ya daidaita a Turai.
Tare da wa'adin zaman lafiya wanda ya biyo bayan yakin duniya na biyu, an tsawaita madadin sabis, tare da sanya 1-W daftarin aiki zuwa Elgin don yin aiki a asibitin tunani na jihar da hedkwatar coci da kuma ayyuka a duk faɗin Amurka da ƙasashen waje.
Janar Lewis B. Hershey, wanda ya jagoranci Sabis na Zaɓe daga 1940-70, ya bayyana Ma'aikatar Jama'a ta Farar Hula a matsayin gwaji "don gano ko dimokuradiyyarmu ta isa ta kiyaye 'yancin tsiraru a lokacin gaggawa na ƙasa." Ba a yarda da su ba kamar yadda masu ƙin yarda da imaninsu suka kasance, CPS a matsayin al'umma suna nuna ma'aunin mutunta lamiri da kuma shirye-shiryen sasantawa daga coci da jihohi.