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A Case of the Human Condition: How Selective Service Made a Man of My Son — Without Even Trying

By Barbara | February 23, 2009

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

Posted in A Case of the Human Condition | Tagged selective service, son, war | 3 Comments

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