[Pilsner]

The pressure of war always changes standards for recruiting and training. I had great-uncle in England who joined up in 1914. He went from being a civilian to being with a unit in France in less than ten days. I had an uncle here in Texas who hitchhiked into town on December 8, 1941 and joined the Navy. He spent Christmas Day 1941 on a ship headed to Pearl Harbor. Comparatively speaking the U.S. Army is being extraordinarily picky and through in getting and training recruits.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

My dad was born in 1906 and was a little too old to step forward after Pearl Harbor. They took him anyway in the China-Burma-India theater and he flew C-46s over the Hump as a civilian pilot.