No, the United States isn't trying to build a military force of centenarians.
It just seems that way after the Selective Service System mistakenly sent notices to more than 14,000 Pennsylvania men born between 1893 and 1897, ordering them to register for the nation's military draft and warning that failure to do so is "punishable by a fine and imprisonment."
The agency realized the error when it began receiving calls from bewildered relatives last week.
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What dumbasses. I knew a WWI vet whom in a fight 5:1 he killed 4 and was shot by the last one.. When I use to get him up I would say "Come on Charlie it's time to kill some krauts" even at 100 years old he still cracked a smile.
ReplyDeleteAnd we're suppose to trust them with our health care, money and any thing else of value to us? The only thing I trust the Feds with is managing to get things wrong, to make a bad situation even worse, to create a problem where no had existed before, to lie to the public and to waste money.
ReplyDeleteThe only thing I trust the Feds with is managing to get things wrong, to make a bad situation even worse, to create a problem where no had existed before, to lie to the public and to waste money.
DeleteAgreed.
Well I'm guessing that all the potential inductees failed to send in their change of address form. C/O Forest Lawn Cemetery. All joking aside, what in the hell are they keeping 110 year old induction records for? Better yet how is it that they can keep up with birth information from 110 years ago but they can't find the e-mail of the IRS or process medical claims of veterans? Everything the US Gov't does now is computerized. Computers have been around in mass usage since the early 1980's which means that somewhere in the 80's or later the government spent a lot of tax dollars to digitize the draft records of folks who were already in their late 80's and 90's.
ReplyDeleteWhat idiot came up with that plan?
Everything the government touches, they screw up.
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