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Re: False Military Service Claims

"My Father was in the Army during WWII but never left the states. He was told they needed his skills to organize supply departments and he also processed paperwork for others who were going to a combat area."

Even beyond that, Pam. My Dad and his best buddy tried to enlist. They were tool and die makers at Atlantic Steel Company in Atlanta. The Army told them to stay where they were. Then they wanted to go to Philadelphia and work in the ship yards. This time the Army ordered them to stay where they were. Whatever they were doing must have been important to somebody.

Dad was then sent to Georgia Tech at night for two years, while still doing his day job. He had only finished the eigth grade. I kidded him later about having no high school, but two years of college. Late in the war the steelworkers union called a strike over something. The Army locked them all in the plant and kept them working. Army cots were brought in and those godawful itchy green wool blankets given them to sleep on. Mom and I went to see Dad in the plant every Sunday until the strike was called off.

I surely wish I knew what they were working on, but Dad never told us, because he was told not to say anything about it, and no one ever told him any different. He ended up staying with Atlantic Steel for forty three years, and never missed a day's work due to illness. Stan

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