“…you think it’s easy for a guy my age not to be in the Army? You think I’m having a good time? Every place I go people spit on me…”
So spake one of the 4-F men interviewed for this magazine article when asked what it was like to be a twenty-year-old excused from military service during World War Two. This article makes clear the resentment experienced at the deepest levels by all other manner of men forced to soldier-on in uniform; and so Yank had one of their writers stand on a street corner to ask the “slackers” what it was like to wear “civies” during wartime.
Click here to read an article about a World War Two draft board.
Read about the 4-F guy who creamed three obnoxious GIs.
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