He’s a person that refused violence, even at the cost of being imprisoned for four years. He was released from prison before he finished it and his grandson finished it for his.in his mid-80s birthday and gifted him the violin, and that was the picture that I saw. And his wife, she was allowed to write him a couple of letters a week and she would type up, in tiny type, smashed onto the page, directions for how to build the violin. But then I learned he had been a conscientious objector during World War II and he had protested the internment of Japanese Americans and had walked off of the Civilian Public Service work camp where he’d been stationed.Īnd he’d been put in prison, and while he was in prison, he built a violin. And everything in my body said, “You need to write about this person,” even before I knew his story.
A friend of mine was reading the Boston Globe and she said, “Sarah, I think you’re gonna want to see this image” and she showed me this photograph of this man who was in his 80s, holding a violin. TITLE SARAH SENTILLES, AUTHOR “DRAW YOUR WEAPONS” At the heart of the book are two people, Miles and Howard, a soldier and a pacifist, and how they and their families’ lives were affected by war. NARRATION It’s about making peace and un-making war. SARAH SENTILLES I just wanted the argument to be made by juxtaposition, by placement of information instead of me telling the reader what to think. NARRATION Sarah’s book draws together many threads, exploring ways we can make a difference to what can sometimes seem like an overwhelmingly negative world. I have to use my life to speak out against violence in ways that have concrete political effects. SARAH SENTILLES I started thinking calling myself a pacifist wasn’t enough. MARGARET THROSBY Sarah, herself, describes this book as a song for the dead, for all the bodies that don’t get grieved, meaning the people who get killed in war.
Sarah’s been all over the country, talking to people about her book, “Draw Your Weapons”. NARRATION Here is someone who has dug deep to unpack the human cost of conflict in her search for a better way to live.
If I could do one thing all day long every day, I would read. When I heard American author Sarah Sentilles was coming to Australia, I was really keen to meet her. I’ve been asked to be one of the hosts, partly because of my interest in post-traumatic stress disorder and the challenges returned servicemen and women face when they come home. In the lead-up to the Invictus Games I’ve been giving a lot of thought to this year’s competition. KUMI TAGUCHI Hello, and welcome to Compass.
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