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Subject: [ROOTS-L] Re: ROOTS-L Digest V06 #235

 
In a message dated 6/4/2006 7:46:28 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
ROOTS-L-request@rootsweb.com writes:

Military  question

While checking some military records, I found where a cuzzie  had a WWI  
draft 
registration and a WWII enlistment in 1942.
Same  man, same birth date.
He was born in 1890.
So, you military experts, did  our country enlist men in their 50's during  
the opening days of  WWII?  

WWI draft
Name: Thomas J Loyd 
married, with   children.

WWII 1942
Thomas Jordan Loyd 
Birth:  26 Oct 1890  - Magazine, Arkansas  
Residence:  Yell, Arkansas 

Shirley  Maynard
Hampton, VA


Yes Shirley, USA was at war. War  was declared by Japan. USA was not 
prepared. They needed many fighting men at  once for ALL BRANCHES of service. They 
kept calling men to fill the ranks. They  not only needed men to fight, they also 
needed men to supply the camps. They  needed men to build the camps. The 
camps had to be literally towns of men  readying for war, which they knew nothing 
about. They were after able bodied  men. 
 
You say your cuzzie was drafted in  WW1, but that he enlisted in WW2. As bad 
as men were needed, I am sure he was  not turned down if he enlisted and if he 
was able to serve. 
 
I certainly am no expert, but from  my memories of WW2, this is what I 
remember about  it.   
Joyce Roberson,  NC.