Were your grandfathers born on US soil? And were their parents US citizens at the time of their birth on US soil?
It is NOT complicated... US citizen parents birthing their child ON US soil. ‘We the people’ are government. Draft cards do not make a ‘natural born’ US citizen... US citizen parents, birthing their child on US soil is the ‘creator’ of ‘natural born’ US citizen.
My grandparents were born in New York and Connecticut to foreign nationals. They voted religiously. My grandfathers served in the Army and the Navy, to fight Kaiser Bill and to help King George V, much to the distress of their German and Irish mothers. My maternal grandmother taught in NYC public schools for 55 years, at a time when being a US citizen was a requirement.
On my grandfather’s draft cards, they chose “natural born” because, of course, they were never naturalized, just like millions and millions of other US-born children of foreign nationals.
Now, are you saying that, because my grandparents were never naturalized that they were not US citizens? If so, then my parents, born in 1923 and 1924, were born on US soil to foreign nationals and THEY wouldn’t be citizens either?
So, if my parents were not US citizens by your rationale, then I’m not one either?
Or are you saying that the Selective Service System in 1917 was wrong to classify all registrants as “natural born” or “naturalized”?
Do you accept that all four of my grandparents, born to subjects of the Kaiser or Queen Victoria, became US citizens as soon as they drew their first breath? If they didn’t, and they were never naturalized, how then did the become citizens?