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To: ansel12
No,

"No" ??? What fact in my post, or in the linked LIFE magazine article, do you dispute?

Read the article. Look up the executive order for yourself, if you like. I have done so.

FDR ended voluntary enlistment. That is a fact. You can speculate all you like about the reasons for it ... it's still a more or less free country ... but I'm not addressing that.

19 posted on 09/02/2014 12:33:58 PM PDT by NorthMountain
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To: NorthMountain

No to your context, FDR had to go to a draft to fill the ground forces.

Enlistments weren’t cutting it.


22 posted on 09/02/2014 12:38:02 PM PDT by ansel12 (LEGAL immigrants, 30 million 1980-2012, continues to remake the nation's electorate for democrats)
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To: NorthMountain

My uncle, a WWII vet, told me that from 1943 on their were no more enlistments. If you tried to enlist you were told that you would go into the service when you were told to report. My uncle wanted to join the navy, but he was drafted into the army.


35 posted on 09/02/2014 1:12:31 PM PDT by forgotten man
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