To refuse to fight for one's country is often seen as cowardly, treasonous, and un-American. But what happens when a whole religious community practicing nonresistance is forced into the draft? As the Amish and Mennonite populations of Holmes and Wayne County found out in 1917, refusal to serve branded them criminals by military law and traitors by public opinion. Those that did serve disobeyed their congregations and God Himself.