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A Case of the Human Condition: Geographic Mobility in America — Watching My Kids Disappear

Most of my grandmother’s children – there were seven of them – lived out their lives within walking distance of their mother’s white frame house in Scottville, Michigan. Not my father. He moved away.

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

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.

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