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Day: February 23, 2009

How Selective Service Made a Man of My Son — Without Even Trying

Teenaged boy in tux ready for prom. Photo by BF Newhall

The 1998 Selective Service pamphlet -- I left it at the post office.

In a few weeks my son would be eighteen, time to sign up for Selective Service. I’d filled out forms for him for years, but this was different. This piece of paper could send him off to war. Read more.

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