WAYNE CHIRNSIDE -> ROSS CASSELL wrote:
 -=>> ROSS CASSELL wrote to MIMI GALLANDT <=-

 RC>> Hello Mimi!

 RC>> 09 Dec 06 21:27, you wrote to Stan Hardegree:

 SH>>> Chrinside and I are the same age.  I was never in any danger of
 SH>>> being drafted and sent to Vietnam - because I was TOO YOUNG.

 MG>> What year did they stop the draft? (had I been male I'd have been too
 MG>> young also)

 RC>> 1973.

 WC>  How about that!
 WC>  ISTR the draft of the day requiring you be signed up for the draft
 WC>  some time *before* your 18th birthday.

You remember incorrectly. Regustration was required upon your 18th
birthday, not before.

 WC>  Thank your for clarifying this up as some here
 WC>  were confused.

You are the only one confused.

 WC>  Thus I was indeed both eligable for the draft and was in fact
 WC>  issued a draft card by the United States government.

If you were registered on your 18th birthday, you were eligable, but in no
real danger of being drafted.

 WC>  Of course I was never called up and never served
 WC>  but then I've never made any claim to such.

No, but you claim to have been in danger of being drafted while there was
no way that could have happened.

Ed

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