Posted on 12/16/2014 7:23:19 AM PST by TurboZamboni
Yep, found the exemption. III-A Registrant with a child or children; registrant deferred by reason of extreme hardship to dependents.
All my father’s brothers, brother in laws, and cousins, chose not to take the III-A exemption and went into the Army.
My mother's older brother was over 30 years old, married and had 3 kids and he got drafted. He was killed at the battle of the Hurtgen forest, a week or so before the Battle of the Bulge began.
As I understand the story, he and his wife weren't getting along and she threw him out of the house and then called the local draft board and claimed he was not supporting the family. Bang, he got drafted and never came home.
Wow. Hell hath no fury.
As always, it’s often who you know.
That same III-A exemption still existed during the Vietnam War. One of my close friends, who became a father at age 19, had that exemption.
That's how my mother felt about it. My mother always stayed as close as she could to his three children.
His wife never remarried. She died relatively young. But learning what I did, I always felt that she must have felt some guilt for doing what she did and leaving her kids without a father.
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