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To: syriacus

I didn’t mind. It kept me from getting drafted until I was almost 19!


7 posted on 05/25/2022 12:24:04 PM PDT by Spok (Winston, how many fingers am I holding up?)
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To: Spok

The draft call ups ended while I was 17 (senior yr).

Mom had lost my older brother 5 days before he was to turn 16, to a farm accident 6 yrs before. Her best friend’s son was KIA in VN on June 6th, 1970, the date of her youngest daughter and my older brother’s birthday (which is how the two women met: sharing the same hospital room).

Mom possibly would have personally disabled me before letting me be drafted. She had also lost her only brother on his first B24 mission over Germany in 44.


20 posted on 05/25/2022 1:17:26 PM PDT by Zuriel (Acts 2:38,39....Do you believe it?)
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