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To: Plummz
If gramps was in the Army, Happy Birthday Mr President Ho-Tep.

Hold off the inauguration ball planning. Two of my grandfather's brothers served--one getting killed in Normandy a week after D-Day, the other one serving in the Pacific where he was badly hurt during a Japanese air raid when someone jumped into the hole where he was taking shelter, landing on him boots-first and causing massive internal injuries. (And then the system lost track of him, reported him to the family as M.I.A, and only informed them that he was still alive when he turned up at a hospital in Oklahoma).

But when my grandfather reported for his physical, the draft board pulled out a letter from his employer saying he was engaged in necessary war work. That, combined with the two kids he already had, got him a draft classification of III-B ("Men with dependents, engaged in work essential to national defense")

Now I'm wondering if someone's going to say I'm not a citizen at all.

89 posted on 02/09/2012 10:10:15 AM PST by Bubba Ho-Tep ("More weight!"--Giles Corey)
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To: Bubba Ho-Tep
“Now I'm wondering if someone’s going to say I'm not a citizen at all. “

Why, I daresay that you're not a citizen at all!

Foreign law says so!

121 posted on 02/09/2012 9:01:49 PM PST by El Sordo (The bigger the government, the smaller the citizen.)
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To: Bubba Ho-Tep

Then maybe Gramps should have been deported.


183 posted on 02/13/2012 1:13:06 AM PST by Plummz (pro-constitution, anti-corruption)
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