Posted on 07/11/2014 1:04:28 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Are you a man born in Pennsylvania between 1893 and 1897? If so, a government agency may have just reminded you to register for the draft.
The Selective Service System, which keeps a roster of potential men who can be enlisted in the military, inadvertently sent out mailings to more than 14,000 Pennsylvania men born in those years, reminding them to register.
These letters were sent due to a computer error, the agency said in a message posted online, and the Selective Service has apologized to the families who have received these letters.
The problem occurred following an automated data transfer between Pennsylvania and the Selective Service, which included the names of the 14,215 men born near the end of the 19th century. The letters started going out on June 30, sent to men who would be at least 117 years old.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Cue to Daffy Duck:
Over the seas
Lets go men
We’re shipping right off
We’re shipping right off
Again
Ah, nobody knows where or when
We’re shipping right off
To home
Again
Your tax dollars at work.
Expecting war with Mexico?
WE all know computers don’t make mistakes,, (insert 2001 HAL imagery here)
They are both a boon and a bane.. Such is life..
In the new ‘turned on’ age (endorsed by TSA)
WE could use a BLack Jack Pershing about now.
;-)
I had an uncle in Pennsylvania who lived to be 103 and he was an Army dentist at one point. He probably would have been up for another tour, if he hadn’t died 15 years ago . . . .
Looks like they mailed my GranDad.
Hey, like a Sinbad movie,, I’m sure he’d be willing to move his bones for his country.. ;)
Additonal cover for Barry’s fake SS registration.
“Hey. It’s a big bureaucracy and mistakes are made quite often.”
Tho my family roots are in Minniesoda , mostly immigrants after the Civil War,, and more Slavic or Bohemian and some WElsh/Scot, we missed out links to the roots of his nation’s founding and its families of an earlier era, yet..
None of them when called, stayed home, except Dad!
He was flatfoot and a dairy and grain farmer with 6 kids.
SCrew the Feuhrer, Feed the troops!
America’s Affirmative Action work force strikes again !
Is there anything, anything at all, our state and federal governments can do without screwing it all up?
Remember the Maine.......in about another year.
Yaknow , if Sinbad and Indiana Jones teamed up..
They could make some arse kick in movies
Well, what’s left of arses anyway.
THis is what we get for federal contracts awarded to the highest bidder and crony.
This is only the beginning of the Y2K apocalypse, people!
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