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To: Auntie Dem

I took a train from NIU, downtown Chi, stripped for the physical, and all the rest.

The crack medical team stamped my papers with an undescended testicle that actually belonged to the guy standing next to me. Rejected. 4-F , iirc.

I didn’t figure it out for several months when visiting the university health center.
While there I asked what’s an undescended testicle ? Why, asked the doc, you don’t have one.

Vietnam was in the headlines.....I didn’t go back to correct their mistake and can’t say I regret it.


67 posted on 06/06/2024 1:38:14 PM PDT by chiller (Davey Crockett said: "Be sure you're right. Then go ahead'. I'll go ahead.)
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To: chiller

When I went for my draft physical, along with a couple of high school classmates, on of them showed a letter from his doctor saying he had an undescended testicle. The doc read the letter, checked him out and said “Don’t worry son, you can still get through basic and fight in Vietnam with only one ball.” Or words to that effect, as that event was almost 60 years ago.


111 posted on 06/06/2024 4:08:51 PM PDT by GreyFriar (Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
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