I made a typo — it should have said 6-29-79. But, he did register that day. I remember it clearly, and he registered at the local Post Office in TX. I especially remember because later they said he DIDN’T register and correspondance followed. Perhaps the Post Office threw his registration away. It was odd.
From: http://www.search.com/reference/Selective_Service_System
“On March 25, 1975, Pres. Gerald Ford signed Proclamation 4360, Terminating Registration Procedures Under Military Selective Service Act, eliminating the registration requirement for all 18-25 year old male citizens. Then on July 2, 1980, President Jimmy Carter signed Proclamation 4771, Registration Under the Military Selective Service Act, retroactively re-establishing the Selective Service registration requirement for all 18-26 year old male citizens born on or after January 1, 1960. Only men born between March 29, 1957, and December 31, 1959, were completely exempt from Selective Service registration. The first registrations after Proclamation 4771 took place on Monday, July 21, 1980, for those persons born in January, February and March 1960 at U.S. Post Offices. Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays were reserved for persons born in the later quarters of the year, and registration for persons born in 1961 began the following week.”
I can't explain what happened with your son. It sounds like some type of bureaucratic misunderstanding. Possibly your real point here is that it is possible to get confused about events that took place in 1979 and in 1980?
I was born in 1960. These events were significant in my life and are still memorable to me. I graduated from High School in 1979. Obama also claims to have graduated in 1979. The year someone graduates from high school is etched in their mind. Registering for a possible draft is also etched in ones mind. It would not be possible for me to recall these events incorrectly as Obama did unless at least one of the events did not happen.
This has been rehashed hundreds of times, Obama said in his interview, “You know, I had to sign up for Selective Service when I graduated from high school. And I was growing up in Hawaii, and I had friend whose parents were in the military, there were a lot of Army, military bases there. And I always actually thought of the military as some ennobling and honorable option. But keep in mind: I graduated in 1979. The Vietnam War had come to an end. We weren’t engaged in an active military conflict at that point. So it’s not an option that I ever decided to pursue.”
In 1980 when supposedly Obama did sign up for Selective Service he was not living in Hawaii. According to his autobiography he was hanging out in California with radical communists, smoking pot and taking drugs. His statement to George Stephanopoulos was pure BS.
In 1980 Vietnam was behind us, but the Iranian's had taken over our embassy and had been holding our people hostage since April. The Russians invaded Afghanistan. The Cold War was still in full swing and there were numerous dangerous conflicts taking place all around the world. There were even communist revolutionaries being supported by Castro and the Russians in Central America, our own backyard. The reason Selective Service was reinstated was that war looked to be on the horizon.
There were also tons of people running around who didn't know what to do with themselves after protesting the Vietnam War. So they did what Obama did, smoked pot, took drugs, hung out with radical communists and protested anything that came along. They especially demonstrated against things like the reinstatemnet of Selective Service and any action that our government took to keep peace in the world.
If Jimmy Carter had stayed in office I am sure that he would have mucked things up bad enough that even Obama's communist sympathizing drug abusing butt might have been drafted. Fortunately, Reagan was elected and a sane strategy was put in place that turned things around.
There are some weird parallels in this thread that I am sure you are unaware of, between this exchange and one that I had recently with another individual on another thread.