My time around the US Army during WW2
(My Dad told this story a few times when my sons had Veteran day honoring vets at school) I was born in 1919 and raised in Bridgeton New Jersey. My parents had very little. After high school I got a job as a bank teller in Bridgeton. Eventually I saved enough to buy a car, a 1936 Ford. When the draft was going for the Army and in early 1941I tried to sign up for the Navy as I had been in Sea Scouts and would rather be in the Navy over Army but they would not take me because I was color blind and could not read the colored signal flags between ships. (Couple years later they stopped that color... Mehr ...
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