Comments on: In Her Own Words: “A Mother,” 1948 http://www.keepapitchinin.org/2011/07/06/in-her-own-words-%e2%80%9ca-mother%e2%80%9d-1948/ Where our past is never very long ago Wed, 22 May 2013 17:18:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: CurtA http://www.keepapitchinin.org/2011/07/06/in-her-own-words-%e2%80%9ca-mother%e2%80%9d-1948/comment-page-1/#comment-76032 CurtA Wed, 06 Jul 2011 21:14:01 +0000 http://www.keepapitchinin.org/?p=10864#comment-76032 Is the date “1948″ when the her son was drafted? The selective service act of 1940, under which almost all draftees of War II served, was repealed March 31, 1947. The replacement draft law, the Selective Service Act of 1948 was passed June 24, 1948. Under that law,men were drafted for 21 months after age 18 and half. An alternative was enlisting for 24 months with a promise of special training if one could qualify.

I took that step in August 1948 and was also sent to Fort Lewis for basic training in the artillery. For the first ten weeks of training we were not allowed off base. Then we had a three day pass, came back and had two more weeks of training.

There were several Utah and Wyoming guys in my unit. Maybe this guy was one of them.

]]> By: Cliff http://www.keepapitchinin.org/2011/07/06/in-her-own-words-%e2%80%9ca-mother%e2%80%9d-1948/comment-page-1/#comment-75973 Cliff Wed, 06 Jul 2011 15:32:06 +0000 http://www.keepapitchinin.org/?p=10864#comment-75973 Ardis, I sometimes think I take for granted that wherever I have lived the church is always there and readily accessible. It just becomes one of those expected things. Looking at the same issue as perhaps a non-member would, their church may not have a congregation if they moved somewhere else. They might not have the same uniformity, the same feeling of ‘home’ that we as LDS have when we go to other places, even on vacation! Thanks for this reminder of how blessed we are as members.

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