LOL! Actually, he was an able-bodied young man who could have easily served in the U.S. Armed Forces in the Second World War, had he been willing to condescend to serve alongside what he described as "race mongrels."
IMHO the old fraud was just plain scared.
12 posted on 06/15/2005 4:10:44 PM PDT by T. Buzzard Trueblood
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