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Originally posted by Art Johnson
Carman, in the time frame that you are talking of I don't think the Army would have accepted a diabetic knowingly. A little story if I may. Two of my brother in laws went to join the Army in 1942. One was like me 5'-7" and 150 lbs. The other was 6'-1" and 190 lbs. The smaller man was accepted and trained as a gunner, he ended up in the Argyles as a section leader and was wounded. The bigger man was rejected and returned to civie street. Two years later he was drafted and sent overseas to England where he spent most of his time in a hospital. This man was so bad he could not get insurance before or after his time in the Army. My father who joined arround the same time was 54 and lied about his age and ended up going to India. Go figure.
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ART...I like your story! Go figure...is right. I guess rules are meant to be shot AT, not for????
Oiy...
By the way... at what age did they consider a man too old to enlist??? I notice in the group photo of the RWR's that the men were quite a varied age range...or looked it
By the way....my Rifleman Edward Smith was 5' 6 and a half inches with a 36" chest...someone really screwed up on listing his weight tho I think...they put 122lbs!!!!!! Thats pretty skinny...and illogical? Hard for me to believe at any rate.
His 19 year old face was not "gaunt" as it would have been if he were that skinny. I don't remember clearly his face... but I remember it was rounded and fleshed out, tho not fat...definately not skin and bones. Hmmm... memory...now where the heck did I put it again? Huh?