Trimm, Steve

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Steve Trimm; Steven Wayne Trimm, b. 1948 in North Dakota, raised in upstate New York; convicted in 1968 of refusing induction into the armed services; sentenced to prison for four years; fled to Canada in 1969 where he lived underground until the Canadian government offered amnesty for illegal immigrants in 1974; received clemency from the U.S. government under the Earned Re-entry Program and pardoned in 1976. Author of Walking Wounded: Men's Lives During and Since the Vietnam War (1993); appeared in video From Albany to Saigon: Vietnam & the Capital Region (2006) (video URL: http://www.imdb.com/video/wab/vi2817458713/); also authored an unpublished manuscript, Resistance and Reconciliation (1974).

From the description of Steve Trimm papers, 1963-2008. (Swarthmore College, Peace Collection). WorldCat record id: 427899326

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Canada
New York (State)--Albany
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Conscientious objectors
Draft resisters
Government, Resistance to
Iraq War, 2003-2011
Pacifists
Persian Gulf War, 1991
War resistance movements
Vietnam War, 1961-1975
Vietnam War, 1961-1975
Vietnam War, 1961-1975
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