In message <51D09D4E.7030707@att.net>, ecunningham <ecunningham@att.net> writes: [] >you KNOW he was drafted. The card you are referring to is a >REGISTRATION CARD. It does not mean he was drafted. If he was, get his >military records (if they didn't burn in St. Louis). However, you >needed this card to work during the ww1 years and could be stopped on >the street by patriotic bullies and made to show the card. Many men >never registered but did serve. >ecunningham@att.net > What could the bullies (just bullies, or some sort of official?) do if you couldn't - or could, but didn't - show it? Draft you on the spot (in which case they must have been some sort of official)? -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf I'm a gay man in a woman's body - and I love it! - Sheridan Smith (actress), in Radio Times, 3-9 April 2010