[upchuck]

How can you be rejected from military service but then told he could be activated in a national emergency?

That describes me. I got my "Dear Upchuck" letter in early summer, 1967.

I took the physical and failed.

My draft status was changed from 1A to 1Y, meaning I would be called up only in a national emergency. When I asked for a definition of that, I was told, "only if the US is attacked."

I was never called up and grieved for many friends who went KIA in Viet Nam.

[Carley]

Thanks for clarifying the status. Seems people here really know the facts on just about everything. :>)