Sep 21, 2013

Tue, Sep 21, 1943: A1

"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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