Re: (HUMOR) "No Jews"

"Cara Wagner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> "Thos. Jefferson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> > "Marvin Margoshes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> > > I don't know what generation you come from, but I bet it was subject
to
> > the
> > > same sort of complaints about young people.  When I graduated from
high
> > > school (1943), I became part of only half the US population that had
> that
> > > much education.  The army unit I joined included several soldiers who
> were
> > > illiterate.
> >
> > They were there in 1965 as well. The guy next to me at the Selective
> Service
> > office asked my to write his name for him on his enlistment papers. He
> could
> > only sign it with an X.
> >
> > nuxgpwk
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> One person I know (several years older than me) said that he did that
> because illiteracy lowered your able-status.
>

It didn't work in the unit I was in.  We were combat infantry, and had
several illiterate soldiers, including the master sergeant!  We also had a
soldier with a silver plate in his head and another in a leg, from repairs
after an auto accident.  And a punch-drunk ex-boxer.  We were sent into
action towards the end of the war, in late 1944, and there was a shortage of
troops by then.