I am 67 and have the same documents you do/did. I’ve had copies of my DD214s, my birth cert, and SS card replaced over the last 10 years also.
I still think it’s an exercise worth doing. Especially if it will keep illegals and terrorists from melding into this society.
I used my SSAN card I was issued in the 60s as well as my original “official” record of birth (it actually says this on it). Have lost my DD214, but had other, listed documents that satisfied the state bureaucrats.
I had a folder of documents to prove who I was, also had a state issued ID as well as a Fed issued ID.
I had no problem getting my RealID.
That's just it. It won't.
They're coming in over the border now that Obama stopped all border security. Once here they travel by auto.
The Real ID is for tracking and controlling Americans. Just like gun laws are for law abiding citizens.
The Constitution guarantees us right of free passage within our country and between the states (like that means anything anymore). Requiring papers to cross between states has been floated before at the federal level. Real ID is simply an early step on the road to doing that.
The federal government has no Constitutional authority to regulate our travel within the US. Between states or otherwise. The fact that it is going to these extremes without opposition is proof of the pathetic banana republic the US has become.
Over the last 10 years ...
Hope I live that long, youngster.