My Pacifist Grandfather Was Murdered by Iran. Here’s What the World Should Know.

My Pacifist Grandfather Was Murdered by Iran. Here’s What the World Should Know.

Albert Votaw—for whom I am named—was born in 1925 in Media, Pennsylvania, the first son of my great-grandmother, who had immigrated from Russia, and my great-grandfather, Ernest, whose Pennsylvania Quaker family had been in the United States since the late 1600s. From his upbringing he inherited a rock-ribbed Quaker pacifism, which led him to become a conscientious objector as a young man during World War II. His service to our country was to be…