"Brown
has quit his job on the road. I expect
he would of been put in A1 if he didn't. seems like you can't do two jobs and
be classed as a farmer."
--
Letter from my grandfather, Bloomington, Kans., to my father, Cape Girardeau,
Mo., Tuesday, September 21, 1943. Brown King
was my father’s cousin and sixteen years older than him. The selective service system provided an
exemption to conscription for farmers.
But apparently having a second job on a road crew would have imperiled
that exemption.
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