> Good Morning everyone: I played hooky from work yesterday and spent the day > at the NARA Branch in Atlanta and it jogged my memory to pass on some > information to everyone. > > Prior to the US's entry into WW1 (approx. 1917-1918) every male between the > age of 18 and 40 was required to register for the draft. The information > found on the card was provided by the individual himself. It has occurred to me that the same thing should be true of World War 2, and even up through the 1970???? Didn't we have "Universal Military Training" or something of that sort until after the Vietnam War? I know that the men in WW2 had to register for the draft, and if my memory serves me right - that's part of the thing that had this country so up in arms during the Vietnam War - because so many young people burned their draft cards, etc., etc??? At any rate, wouldn't those records be stuffed into some storage facility somewhere, too? Jan T